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America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.
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America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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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 youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
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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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Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
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Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.
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An ''unemployed'' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
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An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
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An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.
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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
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An enterprise employing more than 1000 people becomes a self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.
Management Science Journal, October 1960 -
An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
Atlas Shrugged (1957) -
An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
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