"An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards."

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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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"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."

Randall Jarrell, American Poet

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"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."

Eric Allin Cornell, American Physicist

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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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"I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime."

Gary Bauer, American Public Servant

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"European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films."

Charlotte Rampling, French Actress

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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad."

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Public Servant

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"I've always been crazy for the American songbook."

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"The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever."

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"Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense."

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"Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces."

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"When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light."

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"The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father."

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"God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it."

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"Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you."

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