"The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery."

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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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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."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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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."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences."

Gordon Waller, Scottish Musician

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"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom."

Eric Holder, American Public Servant

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"I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American."

John Cusack, American Actor

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"I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human."

Chely Wright, American Musician

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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."

Effort

"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

"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

"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."

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"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

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"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."

Dream

"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."

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"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?"

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