Quotes with latin-american

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  • Ben Carson The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue... A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Ronald Segal The far right seeks to retain the material progress of American capitalism while removing some of its crucial causes and consequences - as though a bridge could be made to change part of its function by blowing up part of its supports and part of its exit.
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  • Betty Friedan The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bee Wilson The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • William Somerset Maugham The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Frank Dane The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Carl Bernstein The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Nicholas Butler The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow.
    Nicholas Butler
    American philosopher, diplomat, and educator
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  • Orson Welles The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Will Rogers The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Raymond Chandler The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • C. L. R. James The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Bob Barr The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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