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America and Americans
«America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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America and Americans
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ceases
«America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
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America and Americans
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chair, friendly, knocks, tail, wagging, wags
«America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.»
Author: David Riesman
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America and Americans,
Country,
Humor
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Chinese, concealment, humorous, inscrutable, ironical, legendary, matches
«America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
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America and Americans
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blanket, blanketed, blankets, cloth, cloths, colors, One Piece, patched, patches, patching, pieces, piece of cloth, quilt, quilted, quilts, size, sizes, texture, textures, The Patch, thread, unbroken, woven
«America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.»
Author: Peter Kropotkin
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America and Americans,
Politicians
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guarantees, looked, oppression, politician, protection, scum, the country
«America is a mistake, a giant mistake.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
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America and Americans,
Mistakes
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America, giant, mistake
«America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.»
Author: Will Smith
(Actor, Author, Producer, Singer)
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America and Americans
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conceives, inventions
«America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs»
Author: John Adams
(President)
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America and Americans
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accustomed, customs, destined, One Nation, peopled, political system, political systems, professes, professing, social system, social systems, tenor, Tenors
«America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.»
Author: Will Rogers
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America and Americans,
Ignorance
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belong, belong to, novelties, novelty, select