Americans experience time in two distinct ways-as religious people and as people of no religion. Just so, we experience ourselves as a historical people and as people who are not implicated by history. (Richard Rodriguez)

Americans experience time in two distinct ways-as religious people and as people of no religion. Just so, we experience ourselves as a historical people and as people who are not implicated by history.

Richard Rodriguez

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