5,300 Quotes About America
- Author Thomas Pynchon
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You’re chicken, she told herself, snapping her seat belt. This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.
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- Author Tom Standage
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Ten years after the Boston Tea Party, tea was still far more popular than coffee, which only became the more popular drink in the mid-nineteenth century. Coffee's popularity grew after the duty on imports was abolished in 1832, making it more affordable. The duty was briefly reintroduced during the Civil War but was abolished again in 1872.
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- Author Orson Scott Card
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In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action.
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- Author أنيس منصور
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الشعب الأمريكي يحكمه عادة رجل مجهول يكون مأمور مركز ثم محافظا ثم رئيسا للدولة و أمامه من الزمن أربع سنوات : السنة الأولى يقضيها في تلقي التهاني . و السنة الثانية في ترتيب البيت و تغيير الخدم و الحشم و السكرتارية و قراءة مشاكل أمريكا و مشاكل الكرة الأرضية و الكواكب الأخرى و السنة الثالثة في الإستعداد للمعركة الإنتخابية و السنة الرابعة و الأخيرة للتفرغ للإنتخاب و تسول أصوات الجماهير التى تسيطر على توجيهها وسائل الإعلام التى يتلاعب بها يهود أمريكا و هم المواطنون من الدرجة الأولى في إسرائيل
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- Author Sara Niles
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I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin TowersFrom Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles
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- Author Anthony Liccione
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We are soon approaching a refined holiday, "Merry Mas," where Christ will be taken out of its context.
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- Author Michael J. Fox
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The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.
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- Author Aaron Blaylock
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Our plump predicament comes from the way we think. In America life hasbecome a daily quest for instant gratification. Do we think about the long term? Rarely. We ask ourselves, “What sounds good?” That’s where we get into trouble focusing on what we want rather than what we need. Then we invent new ways to satisfy ourselves.
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- Author William Missouri Downs
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People in America, they're getting dumber, they're getting less able to analyze something and think critically, and pick apart the underlying elements. And more and more ready to make a snap judgment regarding something at face value, which is too bad.
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