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"America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth."
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"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."

"The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out."

"We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it."

"Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach."

"The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent."

"When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out."

"Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library."

"America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese."
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"Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change."

"When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through."

"So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear."

"Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day."

"Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories."

"I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true."

"Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude."

"A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever."
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