Quotes 1561 till 1580 of 15856.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
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America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage.
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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 had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
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America has chosen Georgia as a junior partner. The United States believes that Saakashvili is creating a democratic Georgia, but these are merely facades.
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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 great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
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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 land where men govern, but women rule.
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America is an outstandingly dangerous place. Consider this: every year in New Hampshire a dozen or more people are killed crashing their cars into moose. Now correct me if I am wrong, but this is not something that is likely to happen to you on the way home from Sainsbury's.
Im a Stranger Here Myself (US) / Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998) -
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 blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
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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 anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
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