"What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind."

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"Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour."

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"America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still."

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"Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth."

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"I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union."

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"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."

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Irwin Edman, American Philosopher

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Jonathan Frakes, American Actor

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"I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced."

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"Too much agreement kills a chat."

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"There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness."

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"Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour."

"America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still."

"Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth."

"I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union."

"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."

"The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves."

"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."

"I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced."

"Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros."

"He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage."

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"Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due."

"Too much agreement kills a chat."

"There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness."

"The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books."

"You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem."

"All the gods are dead except the god of war."

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