283 Quotes About American
- Author James Scott
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Cyber hygiene has to memetically pounded into the intellectual DNA of the American population and continuously reinforced by peer pressure.
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- Author Marcus Berkmann
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There’s nothing American audiences like more than a tragedy with a happy ending.
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- Author Omar El Akkad
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What is the first anesthetic?Wealth.And if I take your wealth?Necessities.And if I demolish your home, burn your fields?Acknowledgement.And if I make it taboo to sympathize with your plight?Family.And if I kill your family?God.And God......Hasn't said a word in two thousand years. (136)
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- Author Jeffrey Eugenides
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Whatever happened now would become the truth, that whatever he seemed to be would become what he was - already an American, in other words.
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- Author Native American Saying
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When the last tree has been cut down,The last fish caught,The last river poisoned,Only then will we realize one cannot eat money.
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- Author Lidia Yuknavitch
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It seems important to them that he is a kind of villain in their stories. This seems American.
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- Author David Cronenberg
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You did not get a very good review from Dr. Trinh," he wrote. "She was very quick to contact me and to let me know that I should stay away from you because you obviously wanted to do damage to the memory of our dearest Celestine. She also said that she did not feel that you were very intelligent, or maybe you were just American, she's not sure...
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- Author Nnedi Okorafor
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Just because you are American does not make you American.
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- Author Joseph Heller
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...and the chaplain was ready now to capitulate to despair entirely but was restrained by the memory of his wife, whom he loved and missed so pathetically with such sensual and exalted ardor, and by the lifelong trust he had placed in the wisdom and justice of an immortal, omnipotent, omniscient, humane, universal, anthropomorphic, English-speaking, Anglo-Saxon, pro-American God, which had begun to waver.
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