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Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. – Paul FussellRate it:
Americans are thinking, there are some good members of Congress but we can’t figure out what they are good for. Others are thinking, how did these morons make it through the birth canal.” – Louisiana Sen. John KennedyRate it:
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are. – Gertrude SteinRate it:
Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something. – Philip SaltierRate it:
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room. – Ernest DimnetRate it:
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. – Edgar Watson HoweRate it:
Americans don't want to think. They want to know. – John DeweyRate it:
Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly...to revere God and be God. – Daniel J. BoorstinRate it:
Americans find it intolerable that one constitutional right should have to be surrendered in order to assert another. America is the land of the free and home of the brave -- we don't need a Patriot Act, because we are already patriots. We know freedom means responsibility, but I am not sure Congress and its domestic enforcement agencies do. More often than not, new security measures enacted by the government have resulted in more violations of the citizenry than terrorists have ever done. The terrorists want us to be afraid - well, we are not afraid. Stop wasting dollars on this program - it is not good for America. To give up essential liberty for a little security provides neither. The right to be left alone from government intrusion is the beginning of all freedoms. – Eric SchaubRate it:
Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral. – Vernon A. WaltersRate it:
Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it cost them. – John UpdikeRate it:
Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power. – Yoshimi IshikawaRate it:
Americans like happy history—narratives that make us look smart, brave, and exceptional. We want a history that has been cherry-picked, one that ignores our mistreatment of the weak and disfavored—a history that can be celebrated at picnics, parades, and in smug conversations. This approach to history is neither honest nor mature. – David PilgrimRate it:
Americans must rise up and make all in Washington DC unemployed. – William BinneyRate it:
Americans never quit. – General Douglas MacArthurRate it:
Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt. – Eldridge CleaverRate it:
Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom. – Forest McDonaldRate it:
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book. – Anthony BurgessRate it:
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. – Arnold BennettRate it:
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James BaldwinRate it:
America’s treasure troves of public and private data, IP, and critical infrastructure continues to be pilfered, annihilated, and disrupted, while an organizational culture of ‘Participation Trophy Winners” managed by tech neophyte executives continue to lose one battle after the next. – James ScottRate it:
Amicus scientia est amicus Deus: Friend of science is the friend of God! – Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:
Amidst passing trends, opt for timelessness; favor lasting impact over fleeting favor. – Aloo Denish ObieroRate it:
Amidst the confusion and chaos of this world, I often question why I should remain on this planet. Yet, deep within, I possess a compass gifted by a higher force. Though unconventional and old-fashioned, it points me away from the relentless loop of society, guiding me towards a path that resonates with truth and purpose. – Yvonne PadmosRate it:

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

– Paul FussellRate it:

Americans are thinking, there are some good members of Congress but we can’t figure out what they are good for. Others are thinking, how did these morons make it through the birth canal.”

– Louisiana Sen. John KennedyRate it:

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

– Gertrude SteinRate it:

Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

– Philip SaltierRate it:

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

– Ernest DimnetRate it:

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

– Edgar Watson HoweRate it:

Americans don't want to think. They want to know.

– John DeweyRate it:

Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly...to revere God and be God.

– Daniel J. BoorstinRate it:

Americans find it intolerable that one constitutional right should have to be surrendered in order to assert another. America is the land of the free and home of the brave -- we don't need a Patriot Act, because we are already patriots. We know freedom means responsibility, but I am not sure Congress and its domestic enforcement agencies do. More often than not, new security measures enacted by the government have resulted in more violations of the citizenry than terrorists have ever done. The terrorists want us to be afraid - well, we are not afraid. Stop wasting dollars on this program - it is not good for America. To give up essential liberty for a little security provides neither. The right to be left alone from government intrusion is the beginning of all freedoms.

– Eric SchaubRate it:

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

– Vernon A. WaltersRate it:

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it cost them.

– John UpdikeRate it:

Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.

– Yoshimi IshikawaRate it:

Americans like happy history—narratives that make us look smart, brave, and exceptional. We want a history that has been cherry-picked, one that ignores our mistreatment of the weak and disfavored—a history that can be celebrated at picnics, parades, and in smug conversations. This approach to history is neither honest nor mature.

– David PilgrimRate it:

Americans must rise up and make all in Washington DC unemployed.

– William BinneyRate it:

Americans never quit.

– General Douglas MacArthurRate it:

Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.

– Eldridge CleaverRate it:

Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom.

– Forest McDonaldRate it:

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

– Anthony BurgessRate it:

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

– Arnold BennettRate it:

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.

– James BaldwinRate it:

America’s treasure troves of public and private data, IP, and critical infrastructure continues to be pilfered, annihilated, and disrupted, while an organizational culture of ‘Participation Trophy Winners” managed by tech neophyte executives continue to lose one battle after the next.

– James ScottRate it:

Amicus scientia est amicus Deus: Friend of science is the friend of God!

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

Amidst passing trends, opt for timelessness; favor lasting impact over fleeting favor.

– Aloo Denish ObieroRate it:

Amidst the confusion and chaos of this world, I often question why I should remain on this planet. Yet, deep within, I possess a compass gifted by a higher force. Though unconventional and old-fashioned, it points me away from the relentless loop of society, guiding me towards a path that resonates with truth and purpose.

– Yvonne PadmosRate it:

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