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“The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“E Pluribus Unum
The United States of America (USA)
Is a meeting place
For peoples of varied backgrounds.

And from the Great Plains of Nebraska and Wyoming
To Maryland's Eastern Shore.

From the Great Lakes adjacent Minnesota,
To the Everglades of Southern Florida.

We are one.

From the corals
Off of California's coasts.

To the mountains
Of the Shenandoah, in Virginia.

We are one.

From the steel and concrete towers
Of New York City
To Liberty Bell
In Pennsylvania.

We are One.

Out of many:
A
single,
We've become.

Out of many:
A
single;

We are one.

As the many stones that make the Obelisk In Washington,
Many individuals
Make the United States Of America.
And the best of all the world
Is here with us.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Poems Honoring Our American Values

“You need to have a Why
Having a “Whyâ€� whatever it is, becomes food. It makes your dreams become more urgent.”
― George Schiaffino, Making Millions by Helping Millions

“With Pale Women in Maryland

With pale women in Maryland,
Passing the proud and tragic pastures,
And stupefied with love
And the stupendous burdens of the foreign trees,
As all before us lived, dazed
With overabundant love in the reach of the Chesapeake,
Past the tobacco warehouse, through our dark lives
Like those before, we move to the death we love
With pale women in Maryland.”
― Robert Bly, Silence in the Snowy Fields