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Discussion in America means dissent.
Dissent
James Thurber

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The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
America
Alexis De Tocqueville

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This is America. You can do anything here.
Freedom
Robert E. Turner

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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
America
Mark Twain

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There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
America
Mark Twain

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America is a willingness of the heart.
America
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America, where people do not inquire of a stranger, What is he? But What can he do?
America
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American is a very difficult language mixed with English.
America
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Americans don't spend billions for entertainment. They spend it in search of entertainment.
Entertainment
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On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment -- half- time.
America
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
Faces
Source Unknown

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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
America
John Updike

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Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it cost them.
Novelty
John Updike

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.
Business
Sam Walton

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
Freedom
George Washington

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
Power
Theodore White

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
Music
Paul Whiteman

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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
America
Oscar Wilde

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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
America
Oscar Wilde

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In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.
President
Oscar Wilde

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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
Poverty and The Poor
Oscar Wilde

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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
America
Oscar Wilde

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
America
Oscar Wilde

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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Language
Oscar Wilde

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Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
Pessimism
George F. Will

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