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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the...

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The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the black man in white Christian h...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X

We need to have a regulatory budget in America that limits the amount of regulations on our economy....

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America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who live...

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We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how...

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We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed...

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I think the private sector for the most part, the vast majority of employers in America, they wake u...

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Here in America, those who once had no hope will give their kids the chance at a life they always wa...

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And I believe only with a strong America will we defeat this radical group, this apocalyptic group c...

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Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because ...

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And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that...

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You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on governmen...

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Every Canadian has a complicated relationship with the United States, whereas Americans think of Can...

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She writes like an angel, it says of Laura on the back of one of the editions of The Blind Assassin....

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I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did it, all at once, without anyone know...

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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

subject that got people aroused . . . was Who Owns America? . . . They had a chart going . . . filli...

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Marge PiercyDance the Eagle to Sleep

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fe...

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Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this ...

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I think that in our earlier history--the Gettysburg Address or something--there was the conscious se...

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There is clearly a feeling abroad that God smiled on our beginnings, and that we should return to th...

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Marilynne RobinsonWhen I Was a Child I Read Books

In America, Fredericka, they don't really have trains for people. The trains here are used mainly to...

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Mark HelprinFreddy and Fredericka

I don't want these. They're mud and they've got no color. Or at least the color is different from wh...

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal...

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Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the...

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Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place w...

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I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of m...

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We are going to win our freedom because both the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will ...

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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

[If] a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for ...

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Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered a...

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When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could g...

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This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the ...

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Mary McCarthyA Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays

Every man has two counties--his own and America.

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Max LernerAmerica as a Civilization

England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine...

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Mary WollstonecraftLetters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden

America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of...

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The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American...

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After eighteen long months covering this dreary business, the whole campaign appears in my mind’s ey...

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America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can't fit...

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Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob who...

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Matt TaibbiThe Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War

She looked at her note cards and took a breath. "Why I Love America, by Hayley McDonald's. America i...

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America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of...

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Max BrooksWorld War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achi...

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In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision th...

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January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been o...

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There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American p...

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I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and i...

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Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in ...

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...I have a theory about why and how all this has happened to you.Instead of having to earn it, you ...

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A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the co...

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Every cuisine has its characteristic 'flavor principle,' Rozin contends, whether it is tomato-lemon-...

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Michael PollanCooked: A Natural History of Transformation

We show our surprise at this by speaking of something called the “French paradox,” for how could a p...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping ...

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Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and stre...

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Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a count...

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I think America is in trouble, but it's not beyond repair. But it's going to take leadership who see...

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America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealis...

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It’s like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of shit i...

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I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job c...

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And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It co...

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The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and g...

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America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of ...

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And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing ta...

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At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and ...

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Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alon...

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Keep America strong. Strong in our values, strong in our economy, and strong in our military might. ...

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The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America's torch alone. But it is Ame...

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And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation...

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I want America to be more like America, if you will. I want the songs, that patriotism we have.

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always d...

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Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of t...

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It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties esta...

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Conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empire...

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America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products thems...

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With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the A...

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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicia...

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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves he...

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And then this whole deal of new gods, old gods," said his friend. "You ask me, I welcome new gods. B...

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Shadow was a couple of a hundred yards away from his motel, and he walked there, breathing the cold ...

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Will you go back?" asked the Lord of the Gallows. "To America?""Nothing to go back for," said Shadow...

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America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to belie...

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Neil GaimanGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolutio...

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If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Af...

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It was an idea that made the crucial difference between British and Iberian America – an idea about ...

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Niall FergusonCivilization: The West and the Rest

It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase “the American dream.”The Ame...

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The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous...

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I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was...

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What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind. Americ...

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I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.

Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what d...

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Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Up...

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Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats a...

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The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overco...

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It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence