283 Quotes About American
- Author Edward Teller
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The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist’s job to find the ways in which these laws can serve the human will. However, it is not the scientist’s job to determine whether a hydrogen bomb should be constructed, whether it should be used, or how it should be used. This responsibility rests with the American people and with their chosen representatives.
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- Author John Steinbeck
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American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use.
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- Author Oscar Wilde
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I don’t think I like American inventions [...] I am quite sure I don’t. I read some American novels lately, and they were quite nonsensical.
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- Author Geoffrey Wood
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The Americans’ great wealth (and their great love for it) makes it precisely the appropriate metaphor. Supply and Demand as a principle has permeated their minds. As a practice, it stains all the way down to their souls.
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- Author Steven Magee
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The ‘American Dream’ is on a ventilator at the hospital.
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- Author Steven Magee
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COVID-19 has ended the ‘American Dream’ for the unemployed.
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- Author Jhumpa Lahiri
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But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.
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- Author Steven Magee
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On the same day as the USA returned to manned spaceflight in 2020, there were protests and riots in many American cities.
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- Author Steven Magee
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The USA government is up to so many shady things that it makes me ashamed to admit to being an American citizen.
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