#american society

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

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I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society. ↗

— Donna Shalala

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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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We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

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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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If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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