It is hard to put any credibility in an article calling America Exceptional when it is written by an American for a magazine called "The American". The only line I really take at face value is the last one: "For better or worse, America is the 800-pound gorilla in every room in the world."
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar IV, iii, 217
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