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America and Americans
«We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old crow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks»
«We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.»
Author: Elizabeth II
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America and Americans
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colonies, colony, lacked, statesmanship, the colonies, The Right Time, yielding
«We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same»
Author: James Bryce
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America and Americans,
Constitution,
Law and lawyers
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American Constitution
«We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.»
Author: Zelda Fitzgerald
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Advertising,
America and Americans,
Growing up
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complexions, founding, mail, mud
«We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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America and Americans,
Nations
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Americans, American System, count, countries, felt, like it, maybe, medical, nation, Scotland, seconds, second world, system, vaporize, vaporized
«We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.»
Author: David Mamet
(Playwright)
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America and Americans
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aesthetic, deprave, depraved, depraves, monasteries, monastery, protective, sinkhole, venality
«We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.»
«We have to face it: in America today the way to have fun and celebrate is to break a store window and take something. That's the way it is, today in America, and we have to accept it.»
«We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.»
«We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
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America and Americans
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Americans, centuries, events, four, hours, informed, informing, informs, last century, sixty, twenty-four, twenty-four hours, twenty