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Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize th...

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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in...

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When Pope Pius XII died, LIFE magazine carried a picture of him in his private study kneeling before...

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The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about ...

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Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovat...

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You cannot grant amnesty. If the American people see us granting amnesty they will never again belie...

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From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political p...

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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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Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of...

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The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the A...

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To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American as...

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And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. F...

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We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U...

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At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in...

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When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked...

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My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda...

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Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the...

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

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The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.

I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity.

I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world...

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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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In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a M...

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Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the ...

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

If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bur...

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The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that un...

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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 only way to win the White House, in my view, is to become a nominee of either the Republican or ...

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My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.

I like American cars. And I would do nothing to hurt the U.S. auto industry.

President Obama's astonishing failure to secure an orderly transition in Iraq has unnecessarily put ...

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Ernst was still in the Eastern Zone, about ninety kilometres from Berlin, when the truck emerged so ...

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I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we d...

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Originally, Congress provided in 1793 that all foreign coins circulating in the United States be leg...

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The American dream is about freedom.

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

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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the ...

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America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of...

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It's certainly not too late to change to the winning side. But you know, you also have the freedom t...

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It was a survival thing: he didn't answer back, didn't say anything about job security for prison gu...

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Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West ...

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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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All my life I wanted to go to bed with an American, and now I had, and I'm beginning to see why peop...

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There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfact...

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For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one a...

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The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against i...

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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American e...

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I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and la...

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What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating t...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying e...

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I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame...

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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of kno...

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Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As an...

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Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American soverei...

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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was ...

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The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial sy...

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Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

What the American public thinks is very important to the future of global health. Many people are mo...

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Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered ...

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The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on,...

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Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of pe...

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The American people are ready for solutions, and Donald Trump offers a chance to move in a new direc...

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We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer op...

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The American people are ready for solutions, and Donald Trump offers a chance to move in a new direc...

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We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer op...

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The American people are ready for solutions, and Donald Trump offers a chance to move in a new direc...

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We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer op...

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The American people are ready for solutions, and Donald Trump offers a chance to move in a new direc...

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We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer op...

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Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opene...

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Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government...

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I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public....

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In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

I understand the sacrifices American servicemen and women have made to protect freedom and democracy...

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Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health...

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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.

The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will p...

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

We have the power to make things new again. To project American strength again, to get our economy g...

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For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a socia...

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It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do ...

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You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an in...

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Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a pla...

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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker...

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Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybod...

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Obama has now lost his trustworthiness. He has lost any hope of majority support from the American p...

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It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays...

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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transce...

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Restricting access to such a basic health care service, which 99% of sexually experienced American w...

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I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so ...

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Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each ...

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So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concern...

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