Robert L. Johnson has traveled the classic American journey from modest origins to unimaginable wealth.
Their story is simultaneously an unlikely one, and a quintessentially American journey.
But what the naysayers and doubters have never understood is that our American journey has always been propelled by a spirit and strength that sets us apart.
It represents precisely the kind of elevated mindset and ethic that can make the daring American journey our reality, landing us on every moon we might dream up.
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And, you can watch a video of Solar Impulse taking off on its North American journey and hear Borschberg talk about learning to fly it after the break.
As a new group of citizens takes an oath to support and defend our country's oldest principles, we affirm another truth: that our American journey and our success would never have been possible without the hope, the drive, and the irrepressible optimism that every generation of immigrants has brought to our shores.
Three other astronauts who've flown into space were born in Britain but made the journey as American residents.
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The journey to reach the American dream is a long and difficult one, but now that I am here, I am so thankful for the life that my parents provided for me here in America.
And from the day that my family arrived here, I have wanted the American people to share in our journey, to share in the history and the excitement that makes the White House such a special landmark in this nation.
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In a documentary called A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, Penn commented on the level of violence that he included in the film.
Hunter S. Thompson wrote a book titled Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, which was later turned into a movie with Johnny Depp.
Recently, I read an article by Carl Richards in the New York Times which could be titled Fear and Hoping in Las Vegas: An Insightful Journey through the Collapse of the American Dream.
But picking out dorm towels, the kind of rite that an upper-middle-class American takes for granted, drove home the magnitude of their journey.
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My personal journey may, indeed, make my conservatism idiosyncratic in the current American or British debate.
In 1971, the American space probe "Mariner Nine" blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, on a journey to Mars.
Since Elian's mother had risked everything on that hazardous journey across the Florida Straits, it was surely her wish that her son should become an American.
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