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"So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids."
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"My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics."
"Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't."
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"So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency."
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