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“Your life can be different, Young Ju. Study and be strong. In America, women have choices.”
“Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...”
“The human heart is first a human heart, then everything else - American, Christian, Asian, Jew, or whatever.”
“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”
“From the BridgeThe Importance of HistoryNot all that many years ago the Importance of history would have been a no brainer! People understood that there was very little new under the sun, and histo...”
“When Pope Pius XII died, LIFE magazine carried a picture of him in his private study kneeling before a black Christ. What was the source of their information? All white people who have studied hist...”
“Thank you, I answered, unsure of the proper American response to her gracious enthusiasm. In the Arab world, gratitude is a language unto itself. May Allah bless the hands that give me this gift; B...”
“What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry.”
“In my own opinion, the average American's cultural shortcomings can be likened to those of the educated barbarians of ancient Rome. These were barbarians who learned to speak--and often to read and...”
“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.”
“Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.”
“I used to walk out, at night, to the breakwater which divides the end of the harbor form the broad moor of the salt marsh. There was nothing to block the wind that had picked up speed and vigor fro...”
“Country music is the poetry of the American spirit.”
“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 ab...”
“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...”
“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 ...”
“American corporate capitalism is a murder-suicide mission.”
“When the average American says, Im starving, it is a prelude to a midnight raid on a well-stocked refrigerator or a sudden trip to the nearest fast food restaurant.”
“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 spices to t...”
“You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.”
