Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Brent Scowcroft America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Alexander Graham Bell America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Arianna Huffington 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.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen 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.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Norman Mailer 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.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Lord George Byron America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • C. Wright Mills 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.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bill Plympton America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Israel Zangwill America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
    Israel Zangwill
    British writer (1864 - 1926)
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  • Bill Frist America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence 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.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • William S. Burroughs America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Bono America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs 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.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • E. M. Forster 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.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Billy Graham 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.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Nicholas Butler America is the best half-educated country in the world.
    Nicholas Butler
    American philosopher, diplomat, and educator
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  • Harold Rosenberg 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.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • George W. Bush America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
    State of the Union, 20-01-2004
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Carlos Saavedra Lamas America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
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