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America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.
America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.
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- Alistair Cooke
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