"America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.“


-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

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