"Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard."
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"There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class."
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"In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that. The Holocaust and the consequences of it. Well, I find it terribly boring, predictable and unimportant, because what matters about literature is esthetic achievement."
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"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen."
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"The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules."
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"The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with the sect as a moral institution, with its immediate demand for beatification, its material efficacity, its compulsion for justification, and doubtless also with its madness and frenzy."
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"The beauty of my job is that I get to see more of that America. And that feeds me."
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"Slowly but surely, we're beginning to turn the tide on childhood obesity in America. Together, we are inspiring leaders from every sector to take ownership of this issue."
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"Of course there are individual racists in America. Sadly that's true. And sadly that will always be true. It's true in this country, it will be true because it's human nature."
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"If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war."
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"America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people."
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"The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
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"You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to!"
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"America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large."
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"America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you -- no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact."
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"America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system."
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"For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda."
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"Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America."
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"Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership."
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"Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do."
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