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Immense, extraordinary in size; wonderful, marvelous.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

—E. E. Cummings “Why I Like America” Vanity Fair, May 1927

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