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Famous quotes containing the words united states, california, united and/or states:

    “The popular colleges of the United States are turning out more educated people with less originality and fewer geniuses than any other country.”
    —Caroline Nichols Churchill (1833–?)

    “We have advanced by leaps to the Pacific, and left many a lesser Oregon and California unexplored behind us.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school, college, or university without ever having cared for, or even held, a baby; without ever having comforted or assisted another human being who really needed help. . . . No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations, and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.”
    —Urie Bronfenbrenner (b. 1917)

    “Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.”
    —Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)