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  • In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.
  • Although every step must be taken to protect against a chemical or biological attack in America, our nation would survive the use of those weapons as we did when anthrax was mailed to our Capitol and other targets.
  • Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I didn't love them.
  • There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
  • The discovery of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the discovery of America almost 500 years earlier. In the case of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.
  • America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
  • No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
  • Baseball has the largest library of law and lore and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
  • Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
  • Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.
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  • Hunter S. Thompson America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Oscar Wilde America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Vaughan A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Barack Obama America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • John Barrymore America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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  • Sigmund Freud America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Georges Clemenceau America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Abraham Lincoln America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Adam Schiff Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Gerald Early I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball.
    Gerald Early
    American essayist and American (1952 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg If she [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.
    On America, in Remembrance Rock (1948)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Henry David Thoreau If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Fran Lebowitz If you're going to America, bring your own food.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Rebecca West In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Anne Rice It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Bell Hooks No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Bruce Catton Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • George Washington Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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