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- Nov 07, 2020
America Quotes
America as pride, worry, and unfinished mission.
This collection holds contrasting feelings about the country: pride in being both African American and American, and a more anxious sense that the America someone loves is slipping away. For a wider view of national pride, see Country quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Government
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Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.
- I Am
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America is the future. I am committed to the States. I'm guessing this is going to be a permanent move.
- Place
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Our social fabric is sundered. GoFundMe and the other crowdfunding sites that have proliferated since 2010 are an example of what has sprung up in its place, what I have called America's dystopian social net. That is, we now require private solutions to what are public problems.
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Uber is hardly the first company to exploit the financial vulnerability of teachers - and the desperation of public schools more broadly - to score PR points. Amazon, Boeing, Bank of America, and other corporations have played the part of school benefactor, offering everything from reward programs to school supplies.
- Over
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We in America believe in starting over - and over and over.
- Forward
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People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
- People
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When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.
- Lunch
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I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.
- Plants
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We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.
- Irritating
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The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.
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We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
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Autumn is much redder in North America and east Asia than it is in northern Europe, and this can’t be explained by temperature differences alone. These areas also have a greater proportion of ancient tree lineages surviving: trees have gone extinct at a higher rate in Europe compared with those other areas.
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