MY "American DREAM":

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"One of the oldest & most-GENEROUS 'tricks' that the Universe 'plays' on human beings is to bury 'strange-JEWELS' within us-ALL, … & then stand-BACK to see IF we can EVER 'find' them."
(--Elizabeth Gilbert)
(… You've gotta "search within YOURSELF" … to "FIND" … & "HARNESS" your "VIRTUES".)


"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do."

Kobe Bryant

(… These are "Words of WISDOM" from … ONE-of the 

BEST, most-INFLUENTIAL basketball players EVER!)

(… NOT to be a "STICKLER" for GRAMMAR, but--

PERHAPS--YOU, Mr. Bryant, SHOULD've attended 

COLLEGE … to LEARN that it's "try TO …" NOT "try AND 

…")

"The American Dream was first publicly defined in 1931 by James Truslow Adams in Epic of America. Adam's often-repeated quote is, 'The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be BETTER and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.'

Adams went on to say that it is not, '... a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.'

The Founding Fathers put into law the revolutionary idea that each person's desire to pursue happiness was not just self-indulgence, but a part of what drives ambition and creativity.The American Dream is protected by the Declaration of Independence, in this familiar quote: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.'"

(--'What is the American Dream?', 2015 About.com)
(… I'm gonna interpret "richer" METAPHORICALLY, 'cuz … I could care-LESS about "MATERIAL-possessions"--LITERALLY.  I PREFER to-be MENTALLY-/ PSYCHOLOGICALLY-/SOCIALLY-"RICH!)

… "The 'American Dream' just keeps getting more AmericanER."
(--'Workaholics')
(… Seeing as I'm only--TECHNICALLY--HALF-American, what with MY CONSTANT-HOPING/-"DREAMING" of WALKING & TALKING, does THAT mean I'm becoming LESS-Turkish?!)

(… In SHARP-contrast, I actually PRONOUNCE FOREIGN-words MORE-cogently than some words in/of my "NATIVE-tongue".)
… "All GOOD-things are POSSIBLE, … when the HEART 'illuminates' the MIND."
(--Harold W. Becker, 'The Love Foundation') 


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IF you doN'T KNOW a "hero", … 
BE a hero.
(… My HERO WAS my dad.  But, NOW, … "my mind's drawing a BLANK".)
(… AWKWARD-pause)
(… I GUESS I'll "accept the 'HERO-baton'.)
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