The biggest challenge in life is to be yourself in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else.
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Where are your parents from? And your grandparents? Your great-grandparents? Eventually if the question persists, (s)he will find a transplanted root. The 100 percent American is, after all, 100 per cent something else.
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| — | Motto for the Bicentennial Exhibition (1976) at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC |


