| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 22380 |
| QUOTATION: | Americans see history as a straight line and themselves standing at the cutting edge of it as representatives for all mankind. They believe in the future as if it were a religion; they believe that there is nothing they cannot accomplish, that solutions wait somewhere for all problems, like brides. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Frances Fitzgerald (b. 1940), U.S. journalist and author. Fire in the Lake, pt. 1, ch. 1 (1972). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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