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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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"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."
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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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"The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever."
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"It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever."
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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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"I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern."
Old
"The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you."
Energy
"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."
American
"As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake."
Work
"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English."
Mother
"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."
Chess
"Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco."
Mother
"Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language."
Travel
"There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser."
Physics
"My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits."
Attention
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