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  • Gertrude Stein 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.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Alan Dundes Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Alan Dundes Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • James Reston Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
    James Reston
    In Holland born, American journalist (1909 - 1995)
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  • Barbara Boxer Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bill Gross 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.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Eldridge Cleaver 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.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Anthony Burgess 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.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung 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.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bobby Locke 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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  • Alice Hoffman Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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  • Brigitte Bardot Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Ben Marcus Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • John Updike Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Bob Gunton Among the roles I've played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.
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  • Barry Ritholtz 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.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Aldous Huxley Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Lord Chesterfield An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Fred A. Allen An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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