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Solitude is un-American.
Solitude
Erica Jong

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I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
Uncategorised
John F. Kennedy

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
Thoughts and Thinking
Charles F. Kettering

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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
Democracy
Florence King

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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
Mistakes
Philip Knight

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The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
Humor
Ronald Knox

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America and its demons, Europe and its ghost.
America
Le Monde

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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
Sorrow
Stephen B. Leacock

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If you're going to America, bring your own food.
Food and Eating
Fran Lebowitz

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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
Literature
Sinclair Lewis

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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
New World
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Dreams
Abraham Lincoln

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To me Americanism means an imperative duty to be nobler than the rest of the world.
America
Meyer London

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America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.
America
Archibald Macleish

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In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
Irreverence
Norman Mailer

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I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
Taboos
Michael Malone

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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
Marriage
Jackie Mason

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There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.
Libraries
Thomas L. Masson

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It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.
Isolation
Henry Miller

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The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.
Youth
Henry Miller

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You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
Food and Eating
Henry Miller

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.
Politicians and Politics
George J. Mitchell

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You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
Modern and Modernism
Peggy Noonan

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An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Austin O'Malley

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America once had the clarity of the pioneer ax.
America
Robert Osborne

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun