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• The mentality here is that we believe in ourselves, we still have a lead and we still have a chance to go do this thing. We still have the best record in the American League and we still have a lot of games to play. If we win our games, we’ll be fine.

  A. J. Pierzynski

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  Tags in Mentality, American, Win, Fine

• Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

  C. Wright Mills

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  Tags in American, Moral

• America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

  C. Wright Mills

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  Tags in American, Political

• The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

  C. Wright Mills

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  Tags in Celebrity, American

• America’s a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.

  Louis C.K.

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  Tags in Works, American

• I am proud to be an American Citizen.

  Robert Purvis

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  Tags in Citizen, American, Proud

• One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that’s just a fact of life.

  John Pomfret

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  Tags in Down, Around, American

• All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

  Carl Sagan

  Topics in America

  Tags in American, Book, City

• Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

  Daniel Akaka

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  Tags in American, Assistance, Neighboring, Insulated, City

• Americans like fat books and thin women.

  Russell Baker

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  Tags in Women, Like, American, Book

• There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

  Unknown

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  Tags in Rendezvous, Mysterious, Generations, Cycle, Generation, Events, Given, Other, Expected, Much, Some, Human, American, Destiny

• To be a Negro in America is to hope against hope.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in America

  Tags in African American, Hope, American

• I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

  Muhammad Ali

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• Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.

  C. Edwin Baker

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  Tags in Government, Advertising, Censorship, American

• Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

  Gore Vidal

  Topics in America

  Tags in Advertising, Teenage, Adulthood, American

• I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

  Kareem Abdul Jabbar

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• New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Houston is six suburbs in search of a center.

  Nigel Goslin

  Topics in America

  Tags in New York, American

• The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

  Neal Barnard

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  Tags in Death And Dying, Food, American

• If you don’t want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully,

  Abraham Lincoln

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• A Bostonian – an American, broadly speaking.

  George Edward Woodberry

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  Tags in American