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  1. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    That speech {Daniel Webster's} "raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.
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  2. Gillian Flynn _ Gone Girl

    They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, 'Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic patriotism.' And when I tried to laugh it off and said, well, I didn't like cherry cobbler either, Marybeth touched Rand's arm: 'Because of the divorce. All those comfort foods, the desserts a family eats together, those are just bad memories for Nick.' It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries."
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  3. Geraldine Brooks _ The Secret Chord

    I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom.
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  4. Geraldine Brooks _ The Secret Chord

    We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are.
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  5. Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony

    Red rain, white-striped towers and a clear blue sky, it was like America's flag exploded everywhere that day.
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  6. Rebecca Goldstein _ Plato at the Googleplex: Why

    Participation in the collective life of the polis both restrains the extraordinary individual and enlarges the ordinary individual, allowing him to participate in the extraordinary. An individual can achieve participatory excellence via the accomplishments of the polis and need not always be caught up in the agnostic struggle to outdo his peers.
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  7. Alan Paton _ Ah But Your Land Is Beautiful

    - Mr. Berg, Are you an Afrikaner?- Yes-And are you proud of it?-I am not ashamed of it, but I am not proud of it, for in fact I had nothing to do with it.
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  8. Hilary Mantel _ A Place of Greater Safety

    Abroad? Oh no. I went to England in '91, and you stood in the garden at Fontenay and berated me." He shook his head. "This is my nation. Here I stay. A man can't carry his country on the soles of his shoes.
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  9. Orhan Pamuk _ Snow

    It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.
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  10. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of

    The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country.
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  11. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The First Salute

    Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.
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  12. Jeffrey Eugenides _ Fresh Complaint

    One's country is like oneself. The more you learned about it, the more there was to be ashamed of.
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