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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."
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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"
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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."
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"The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at."
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"Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so."
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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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"I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now."
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"Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences."
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"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."
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"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."
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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."
Man
"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me."
Nature
"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."
Time
"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."
People
"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."
Nature
"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
Idea
"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"
Experience
"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."
Imagination
"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."
Virtue
"The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism."
Nature
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