Reread paragraph 4 of “Three Cheers for the Nanny State.” Explain what the paragraph says about the vision that Americans have of themselves

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.

—Walt Whitman

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

– Thomas A. Edison

If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.

– Jim Rohn

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.

– Colin Powel

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.

– H. Jackson Brown Jr

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

– Malcolm X

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

– Robert F. Kennedy

You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

–  Tina Fey

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.

– Nora Robert