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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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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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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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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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He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It’s just a pitch that you missed, and you’d better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot...

—Craig Ferguson

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AmericanFailureGlory
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Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments of our time.

—John Brockman

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AccomplishmentsAmericanIgnorance
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The American really loves nothing but his automobile: not his wife his child nor his country nor even his bank-account first (in fact he doesn’t really love that bank-account nearly as much as foreigners like...

—William Faulkner

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In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public...

—H.L. Mencken

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Yet that is considered an excellent school, and I dare say it would be if the benighted lady did not think it necessary to cram her pupils like Thanksgiving turkeys, instead of feeding them in...

—Louisa May Alcott

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Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I’m from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the...

—William Saroyan

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O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,That draws oblivion’s curtains over kings;Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not,Their names without a record are forgot,Their parts, their ports, their pomps all laid in th’ dustNor...

—Anne Bradstreet

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Either ‘the group’ is superior or the individual is superior. Marxism, socialism, fascism, and pure democracy are all forms that give power to ‘the group’ and then use violence to force individuals to obey the...

—Dave Champion

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The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

—Richard Wright

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Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

—Billy Graham

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…[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American ‘Labour Union’ in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the...

—Karl Marx

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…the more I see the better satisfied I am that I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my...

—Theodore Roosevelt

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Despite a few exceptions, I have found that Americans are now far more willing to learn new names, just as they’re far more willing to try new ethnic foods… It’s like adding a few new...

—Firoozeh Dumas

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inspiration. five minutes in the back of a greyhound bus; the world passing by.a gateway to freedom.the american dream.from “the american dream

—K.R. Albers

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The death of Robert G. Ingersoll, on July 21, 1899, was one of the most widely — noted events of that year in the civilized world. It was also one of the most widely and...

—Robert G.

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AdmirationAmericanBereavement
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He lies on the couch all day watching television. I admire his classic American ambition. He’s probably a better lover than me.

—Jarod Kintz

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What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry.

—Oscar Wilde

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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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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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