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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.
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American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.
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Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
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Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
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Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
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Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.
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Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
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Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
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Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
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Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.
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Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.
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Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
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Americans now know that housing prices can go down and they can go down by 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 or 50 percent. We know they can go down. But five years ago, we thought they could only go up.
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Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
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Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
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Among all my patients in the second half of life... every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
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Among golfers the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fact a game in itself.
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