"We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities."

James H. Breasted, American Archaeologist

America, Cities, Land, Wilderness

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"If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational."

Salma Hayek, Mexican Actress

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"I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines."

Theodore C. Sorensen, American Lawyer

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"There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way."

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"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

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"I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch."

Antonio Banderas, Spanish Actor

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"America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer."

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"I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President."

Charlie Chaplin, English Actor

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"As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

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"Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go "LOL" in America."

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"There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C."

Creation

"Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood."

Childhood

"To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean."

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"In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained."

Life

"Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it."

Progress

"It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science."

Science

"But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors."

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"The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian."

History

"By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile."

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"It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history."

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