5,300 Quotes About America
- Author Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Nature has wrought with a bolder hand in America.
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- Author F. Scott Fitzgerald
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For America is composed not of two sorts of people, but of two frames of mind - the first engaged in doing what is would like to do, the second pretending that such things do not exist.
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- Author Damien Blanchard
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America Is a Time to think about where you think and where you believe in what you got to live for in life
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- Author Ben Fountain
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It has been a frustrating game thus far and [the natives] blow off steam by spending money. Happily there is retail at every turn so the crow doesn’t lack for buying opportunities, and it’s the same everywhere Bravo has been, the airports, the hotels, the arenas and convention centers, in the downtowns and the suburbs alike, retail dominates the land. Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.
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- Author Charles Simic
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I love America," he'd tell us. We were going to make a million dollars manufacturing objects we had seen in dreams that night.
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- Author James Scott
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Many members of Isis are not sophisticated attackers. The majority of members do not have a technical background. The UCC is predominately capable of hacking soft targets, such as Twitter accounts, and spreading propaganda or defacing websites
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- Author Colson Whitehead
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If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was supposed to keep hold of his land, it'd still be his. If the white man wasn't destined to take this new world, he wouldn't own it now.Here was the true Great Spirit, the divine thread connecting all human endeavor--if you can keep it, it is yours. Your property, slave or continent. The American imperative.
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- Author James Baldwin
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And if the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it. For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become.
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- Author Colson Whitehead
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The other patrollers were boys and men of bad character; the work attracted a type. In another country they would have been criminals, but this was America.
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