Quotes 461 till 480 of 534.
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To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
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Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.
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Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.
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Trust in the great American ingenuity. We can derive more intelligent, more brain-friendly ways we can play football.
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Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.
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Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
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Very few wars in American history were prepared better or more throughly than this one by this president.
March 1, 2003 -
Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
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We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
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We had at our disposal the first operational jet, which superseded by at least 150 knots the fastest American and English fighters. This was a unique situation.
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We have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.
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We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.
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We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
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We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.
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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
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