"The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid."

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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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"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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"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."

Ralph Ellison, American Author

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"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."

Jonathan Frakes, American Actor

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"I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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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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"What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind."

Eldridge Cleaver, American Activist

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"Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends."

Kenneth Anger, American Author

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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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