The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.
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Related We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives wh... HOWARD ZINN The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON The secret of my success is my hairspray. RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... ...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everyt... HENRY JAMES Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA The American government is doing whatever it wants to, without any representative of the American pu... JOHN CHANCELLOR If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. 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FIRESTONE I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f... GEORGE HARRISON It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democrac... BARBARA BOXER Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE What is key to America's understanding of class is the persistent belief - despite all evidence to t... MICHELLE ALEXANDER American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be descr... CHAD HARBACH The American economy is the eighth wonder of the world. The ninth is the economic ignorance of the A... ARTHUR LEVITT I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests. PETER BRIMELOW We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic. JUSTIN RAIMONDO In the beginning there was nothing, and then god created "me". BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Many people think that love represents chains, bondage, the opposite of freedom. But people who beli... C. JOYBELL C. July Fourth means a lot to me as an American, ... It is a patriotic day. It is not particularly abou... ROBERT DAVIES The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the contr... NORMAN COUSINS The American middle class's faith in personal comfort as an end in itself is, in essence, a deni... NELSON ALGREN Rachael Ray is probably the most watched kitchen personality in the history of American television. BILL BUFORD Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people. Empa... C. JOYBELL C. The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
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