"I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America."

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"I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America."

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"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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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."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

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"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."

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"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."

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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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"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America."

Simon Newcomb, Canadian Mathematician

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"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."

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"The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy."

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