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The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

—Chuck Palahniuk

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For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

—Paul Krugman

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All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.

—Asa Don Brown

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This is why we apply the LCD Principle or Lowest Common Democracy. In short, this is social interaction based not on the best possible good, but on the least possible offense. Without saying so, the...

—Geoffrey Wood

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It’s almost like that’s the definition of being American: You love becoming Irish for a day, or becoming Italian… Or becoming a Negro for four years.

—Josh Alan

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it ain’t as hard as picking cotton

—Wynton Marsalis

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I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

—George Bernard

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There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.

—Mark Strand

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We Americans… like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

—W. Somerset

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American corporate capitalism is a murder-suicide mission.

—Bryant McGill

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Look at the truth from how it stands, not where it comes from. The truth is still the truth no matter whether it is spoken by an Indian, an American, a Chinese, an European, an...

—Israelmore Ayivor

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Buffett’s uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American capitalism. He taught a generation how to think about business, and...

—Roger Lowenstein

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The Americans’ great wealth (and their great love for it) makes it precisely the appropriate metaphor. Supply and Demand as a principle has permeated their minds. As a practice, it stains all the way down...

—Geoffrey Wood

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It is always a pride to die as an American.

—M.F. Moonzajer

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The thesis that DID is merely a North American phenomenon has been refuted in the past decade by research reports based on standardized assessment from diverse countries, such as from The Netherlands, Turkey, and Germany...

—Paul F.

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Sometimes it was like Neil was from an alien planet, where people never asked for or shared anything emotional without deeply apologizing first. He assured me that he was simply British. And that we Americans,...

—Amanda Palmer

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The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist’s job to find the ways in which these laws can...

—Edward Teller

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Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner; cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it’s a short way from not knowing...

—Michael Pollan

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When did a free country start to mean free enterprise? Who sold Democracy out for a golden calf we got to idolize?

—Trevor D.

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You are a stupid fucking woman, Emily Colt. Just like all your kind. I know you hate Americans, but—I never said I hated Americans, Sergei spat. I said your kind. Women. It doesn’t matter to...

—Allie Burke

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You’re three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.

—F. Scott

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Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.

—Scott Snyder

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The Americans want a surplus stocked up to supply their every whim. And their appeals are much less requests, more demands. Indeed, the phrase might be more aptly put: Demand and Surplus.

—Geoffrey Wood

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It may be underfunded and at times mismanaged, but the [Endangered Species] Act is an unprecedented attempt to delegate human-caused extinction to the chapters of history we would rather not revisit: the Slave Trade, the...

—Joe Roman

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Country music is the poetry of the American spirit.

—Steve Maraboli

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The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. —– “A Clockwork Orange Resucked” intro to first full American version 1986

—Anthony Burgess

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Uncle Sam’s not related to me. He’s stuck his dick in the American Pie too many times to be welcome at my family picnics.

—Jarod Kintz

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I am an American, proud to be an American, proud to be a black American. I’m not African-American. I’ve never been to Africa. I’m an American that is black and my – and I’m proud to...

—Ken Hutcherson

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I attained a triumph so complete that it is now rare to meet an American with marks of small pox on his face… Benefits are valuable according to their duration and extent… but the benign...

—Benjamin Waterhouse

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I practice karate moves when I think nobody is watching. It’s all part of being a real American badass, I guess. Chicks dig it. I mean they would, if they ever looked and caught me...

—Jarod Kintz

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If I tell you, will you let met go?- You bet, partner. […]- You promised!- Nope. I said “you bet.” You did … and you lost.

—Scott Snyder

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Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels —practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval.

—Geoffrey Wood

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The principal goal of Bush’s plan is the capacity for every American to have a vaccine in the case of a pandemic, no matter what the virus is.

—Michael Leavitt

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thank you” an insufficient expression that makes my voice sound miserly and ungrateful.” (169).

—Susan Abulhawa

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America is a young dumb country and it needs all kinds of help. America is a dumb puppy with big teeth that bite and hurt. And we take care of America. We hold America to...

—Abiodun Oyewole

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If somebody were to ask me what it means to me to be American, I’d respond, “It’s like eating scrambled eggplant with a dozen 1969 moons sunny side up at noon.” If they asked me...

—Jarod Kintz

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…that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

—Jhumpa Lahiri

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Your life can be different, Young Ju. Study and be strong. In America, women have choices.

—An Na

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I like color commentators. Especially red, white, and blue color commentators. As an American I sometimes feel so patriotic I feel British.

—Jarod Kintz

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I always, always got to be the last man standing.

—Scott Snyder

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Make good and sure your clients all call themselves Americans —proudly so, defiantly, loudly— but without any more thought about it than wearing a hat.

—Geoffrey Wood

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All my life I wanted to go to bed with an American, and now I had, and I’m beginning to see why people don’t do it more often.

—Nick Hornby

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Americans are interesting creatures. They criticize those who speak their language with a slight accent but have no issues with butchering most other languages, my name included.

—Santino Hassell

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There was no experience, I thought, quite as wonderful as being an American in Paris.

—Ann Mah

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I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

—Criss Jami

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unfettered leewardings,” here at the end of the world.

—Mark Doty

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Finally, the president added, ‘The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic…

—Bob Woodward

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There are many ways to honor America. This book is mine. I have completed this journey of self-education in the belief that the most terrifying possibility since 9/11 has not been terrorism–as frightening as that...

—David K. Shipler

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That’s what everyone thinks–they think being a cop is about punishing people for doing wrong. But that’s not true. You know it isn’t. It’s about believing in people, believing in the good. In the will...

—Scott Snyder

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Call me Ishmael. Some years ago–never mind how long precisely–having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see...

—Herman Melville

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