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"The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."
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"I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes."
"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
"Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes."
"It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish."
"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."
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"My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally."
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"It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens."
"People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another."
"In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'."
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"On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn."
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