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American state
«The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question: ''Is this all?''»
Author: Betty Friedan
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«When in 1966 Charles de Gaulle ordered France out of NATO and American troops off French soil, Secretary of State Dean Rusk asked him if that included the American soldiers lying dead in the cemeteries at Normandy and throughout France»
Author: Charles Krauthammer
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«No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the American people into one common mass»
Author: John Marshall
(Founder)
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American people, American state, breaking, compounding, dreamer, lines
«My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become Governor of California and stand in Madison Square Garden to speak on behalf of the President of the United States that is an immigrant's dream. It is the American dream.»
Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Actor, Governor)
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«Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
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«California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room, you can see a microcosm of what we can do in the world. . . . You should be hopeful on balance about the future. But it's like any future since the beginning of time -- you're going to have to make it.»
«If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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American state, imbecility, population, the United States, United States
«On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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American state, dinners, Her husband, idle, on the whole, partly
«Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS -- our inferior one varies with the place.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
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