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- noun idiomatic A widespread determination by Americans to provide their children with a better upbringing than their parents were able to provide for them.
- noun idiomatic A philosophy that with hard work,
courage and determination, anyone can prosper and achievesuccess .
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Examples
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A Muslim Center run by an Imam who has written a book entitled The American Dream is the Muslim Dream and who has worked for decades to promote cooperation and understanding will become the number one target of Muslim terrorists because he is the ultimate affront to their core belief that infidels should be destroyed -- not embraced.
Larry Gellman: The Ground Zero Muslim Center -- How Low Can We Go? Larry Gellman 2010
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A Muslim Center run by an Imam who has written a book entitled The American Dream is the Muslim Dream and who has worked for decades to promote cooperation and understanding will become the number one target of Muslim terrorists because he is the ultimate affront to their core belief that infidels should be destroyed -- not embraced.
Larry Gellman: The Ground Zero Muslim Center -- How Low Can We Go? 2010
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A Muslim Center run by an Imam who has written a book entitled The American Dream is the Muslim Dream and who has worked for decades to promote cooperation and understanding will become the number one target of Muslim terrorists because he is the ultimate affront to their core belief that infidels should be destroyed -- not embraced.
Larry Gellman: The Ground Zero Muslim Center -- How Low Can We Go? 2010
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A Muslim Center run by an Imam who has written a book entitled The American Dream is the Muslim Dream and who has worked for decades to promote cooperation and understanding will become the number one target of Muslim terrorists because he is the ultimate affront to their core belief that infidels should be destroyed -- not embraced.
Larry Gellman: The Ground Zero Muslim Center -- How Low Can We Go? 2010
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And I had experienced firsthand the opportunity we call the American Dream, whereas he held only a promissory note.
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The basic building block of the American Dream is the family - mom, dad, 2.4 kids and a dog.
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Today the American Dream is a stewy mush of insurables supported by a portfolio of retirement benefits we hope will insulate us from both time and those who are "less fortunate."
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Speaking to the Democratic Leadership Committee in 1993, Bill Clinton called the American Dream a "simple but powerful one -- if you work hard and play by the rules you should be given a chance to go as far as your God-given ability will take you."
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The ones who do make the cut endlessly spout the lies of the so-called American Dream in one form or another.
Gallup: Hillary Takes Four-Point National Lead Over Obama 2009
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"I stand here today at the crosscurrents of that history -- knowing that my piece of the American Dream is a blessing hard won by those who came before me," Michelle said, adding ...
Michelle Obama 2009
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In 1931, when writer James Truslow Adams coined the term “the American Dream,” it had more to do with idealism than material prosperity. The American Dream, he wrote in The American Epic (a book glowingly reviewed in the Atlantic’s December 1931 issue), was “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.”
In Search of the American Dream Jonas Clark 2007
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