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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Austrian psychiatrist. Quoted in Ronald W. Clark, Freud: the Man and his Cause, pt. 3, ch. 12 (1980).

To his colleague and biographer Ernest Jones (Memories of a Psycho-analyst, ch. 9, 1959), Freud said: "Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake."

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