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> [In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-handlin/in-times-of-shrinking-expectations-everyone-feels-like-a-victim-and/)

[Oscar Handlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-handlin/)

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## More by Oscar Handlin

> [“In America a bread never came without complications.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-handlin/in-america-a-bread-never-came-without-complications/)

[Oscar Handlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-handlin/)

> [“The historian, predisposed to verbal evidence, who reads about rather than looks at objects, becomes dependent upon secondhand impressions and is helpless when critics…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-handlin/the-historian-predisposed-to-verbal-evidence-who-reads-about-rather/)

[Oscar Handlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-handlin/)

> [In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-handlin/in-times-of-shrinking-expectations-everyone-feels-like-a-victim-and/)

[Oscar Handlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-handlin/)

> [Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-handlin/once-i-thought-to-write-a-history-of-the-immigrants-in-america-then-i/)

[Oscar Handlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-handlin/)

> [“The condition of man is to till the soil; there is no other wholeness to his existence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-handlin/the-condition-of-man-is-to-till-the-soil-there-is-no-other-wholeness/)

[Oscar Handlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-handlin/)

> [“Poverty was a dog whose teeth sank deep.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-handlin/poverty-was-a-dog-whose-teeth-sank-deep/)

[Oscar Handlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-handlin/)

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