self-awareness quotes

If†Americans do not succeed in engineering an economic revival, we can look forward to being remembered as, of all the nations that have prospered and declined, the one that has done so in the highest state of self-awareness.

-Lardner,James
  'The Declining Middle', in the NewYorker, 3 May.

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