Olaf Stapledon Quotes
That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
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The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
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I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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The American fans would love to see me fight anybody.
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My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.
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The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.
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I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.
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There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
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Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'
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An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
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American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
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Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
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Limits are very important.
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Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
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Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
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That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
