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America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you - no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.
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America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.
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America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.
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America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
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America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
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America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.
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America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
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America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.
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America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
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America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.
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America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.
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America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
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America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
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America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.
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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
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