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• The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

  Charles Eastman

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• The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

  Charles Eastman

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• The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

  Charles Eastman

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• Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

  Edward V. Lucas

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• The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible.

  Edward W. Bok

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• Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

  Edward W. Howe

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• Europe’s the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

  D. H. Lawrence

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• In fact that is the struggle that most Americans – As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way.

  Edwidge Danticat

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• I don’t know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.

  Ehud Olmert

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• Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

  Robert Morgan

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• I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

  Eldridge Cleaver

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• I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

  William E. Simon

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• African American children can’t be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

  Chaka Fattah

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• The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

  Chaka Fattah

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• I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

  Elia Kazan

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• For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

  Elia Kazan

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• The belief that the good in American society will finally win out… I don’t believe any more.

  Elia Kazan

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• A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target American interests in South Korea and beyond.

  Robert Jenkins

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• The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.

  Chaka Fattah

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• Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

  Chaka Fattah

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