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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. ↗

— Henry Adams

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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society. ↗

— Ted Rall

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As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place. ↗

— Jacques Delors

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Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours. ↗

— Jacques Delors

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Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English. ↗

— Ernest Istook

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