"Welcome to the U.S. Capitol: Watch for falling expectations."
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"This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground."
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"I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?"
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"I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's got to be done!"
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"Ever since I was a little kid I've been so glad to be from America and so glad to live here."
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"Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her."
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"I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West."
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"I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?"
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"But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders."
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"Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond."
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"America is a country of young men."
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"Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board."
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"Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius."
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"As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions."
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"The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water."
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"Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation."
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"In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful."
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"I'm not hopeful about America, and I'm not hopeful about the world, no. Life goes on and, for those of us who are lucky, there's a great deal to enjoy in it. But will things get better for most people? I don't know. I don't see the evidence."
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"Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states."
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"Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England."
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