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"America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality."
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"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."
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"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."
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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
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"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."
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"I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans."
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"America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man."
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"It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before."
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"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."
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"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."
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"To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing."
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"War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly."
War
"Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that."
War
"Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words."
Government
"We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world."
Development
"The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom."
Home
"The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people."
Time
"Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media."
Technology
"The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks."
Blood
"War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum."
War
"Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive."
History
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