Bil Holton, America Is My Home: The Story of Uncle Sam, p. iii
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I am convinced that America's soul, pulverized by racism, embattled by sexism, over-whelmed by indifference and immorality, polluted with industrial waste, strangled by idiotic government partisanship, over-burdened by taxation, poisoned by an unprincipled media, orphaned by the super-rich, and bilked by the insurance industry can still rise up against these unbearable odds and triumph.
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I am convinced that America's soul, pulverized by racism, embattled by sexism, over-whelmed by indifference and immorality, polluted with industrial waste, strangled by idiotic government partisanship, over-burdened by taxation, poisoned by an unprincipled media, orphaned by the super-rich, and bilked by the insurance industry can still rise up against these unbearable odds and triumph." in the context of "Bil Holton, America Is My Home: The Story of Uncle Sam, p. iii" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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