- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
American Quotes
Many voices, one word.
These American quotes range from wry commentary on press culture to reflections on civic duty at the ballot box, plus lighter notes on dance companies and a television series praised as a genuine American classic. For more on the country itself, visit our America page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1987, the United States celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of the constitutional convention that provided the basic rules for the American political order. This convention was one of the very few historical examples in which political rules were deliberately chosen.
- Break Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
- Governors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I don't think so, because the president and members of Congress and governors have the same constituents. It's the American people who are hurting.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language that is somehow not as clear in a lot of American schools.
- Assault
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American dream is under assault.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it.
- Club
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the American League, there seems to have been an entire lack of any concerted campaign to build up a club in New York which should rival the Giants on an even basis.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020