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American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
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American public opinion is like an ocean - it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
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American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.
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American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.
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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
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Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
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Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
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Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.
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An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say ''Gentlemen'' to the person with whom he is conversing.
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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
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An expensive arms race, under cover of the military metaphysic, and in a paranoid atmosphere of fright, is an economically attractive business. To many utopian capitalists, it has become the Business Way of American Life.
The Causes of World War Three (1960) -
And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.
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And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.
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And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.
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