Ezra Pound Quotes
America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.
Ezra Pound
Quotes to Explore
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When you think of the typical Teach For America corps member, soldiers and ex-bankers are probably not the people who come to mind. In fact, there is no such thing as a typical corps member. They can't be neatly pigeonholed or painted with a broad brush.
Wendy Kopp
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As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.
Wendy Kopp
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
Carlene Carter
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.
Lamar Alexander
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America has always been a land of diversity, basically made up of immigrants, and that is something I want to see continued. It's something I'm proud of when people think of America.
Halima Aden
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In the end, it's a good investment for America to be involved in helping people get democratic governance - not to take over their country - but to help people be free. And that is an investment that will pay off in the future.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
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I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.
Patrick Stewart
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The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now.
Vincent Bugliosi
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Some places you play in America, it's like 'On the Waterfront.'
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.
Pat Buchanan
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When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, 'Wow, this is really a different country.' I think that feeling of genuine foreignness, that this is a very different culture, which is increasingly rare in our globalised world.
Naomi Klein