As Individuals And As A Nation, We

There's Something Beautifully Soothing About A Fact — Even (or Perhaps Especially) If We're Not Sure What It Means.

The Most Important American Addition To The World Experience Was The Simple Surprising Fact Of America. We Have Helped Prepare Mankind For All Its Later Surprises.

[the Library Of Congress] Is A Multimedia Encyclopedia. These Are The Tentacles Of A Nation.

In Our World Of Big Names, Curiously, Our True Heroes Tend To Be Anonymous. In This Life Of Illusion And Quasi-illusion, The Person Of Solid Virtues Who Can Be Admired For Something More Substantial Than His Well-knownness Often Proves To Be The Unsung Hero: The Teacher, The Nurse, The Mother, The Honest Cop, The Hard Worker At Lonely, Underpaid, Unglamorous, Unpublicized Jobs.

A Best-seller Was A Book Which Somehow Sold Well Because It Was Selling Well.