5,300 Quotes About America
- Author Lewis Lapham
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Social rank has always been one of the pricier commodities sold in the great American department store, and the ceaseless revision of what constitutes society gives rise to the great American comedy that has been playing continuous performances since the beginning of the Republic. As one generation of parvenu rich acquires the means to buy the patents of nobility, it looks down upon the next generation of arrivistes as clubfooted upstarts.
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- Author Ursula K. Le Guin
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A fear of using the imagination is very deep in America.
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- Author A.D. Aliwat
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Fireworks aren’t even American. They’re Chinese. It’s kind of funny when you think about it, celebrating the birth of this country with something invented by the country it borrows the most money from, who basically owns it. Home of the free? Ha-ha.
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- Author Darnell Lamont Walker
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There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.
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- Author Kurt J. Wohlers
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To admit that there is some perspective better than our own is to commit American blasphemy.
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- Author Hy Bender
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…there was a generation in the U.K. who’d grown up reading DC comics from a bizarre perspective. In America, those comics were perceived without irony; in England, they were like postcards from another world. The idea of a place that looked like New York, the idea of fire hydrants and pizzerias, was just as strange to us as the idea that anyone would wear a cape and fly over them.
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- Author James Thomas Kesterson Jr
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John Locke and Thomas Jefferson both were great men in politics; however, they both were wrong in their beliefs of what rights men should have. Both men left out one of the most important rights that all humans should have and that right is 'equality'.
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- Author James Thomas Kesterson Jr
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Freedom and restrictions cannot coexist.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The flag stands for the vision cast and the blood spilt by those who hoped (against all hope) that we would be swept up by both and stand fast against anything that would attack either.
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