#american

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

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I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#formulas #future #i #involves #mentioned

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#american culture #between #crime #culture #devastation

I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#am #american #britain #choice #english

There are no second acts in American lives. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#american #american lives #lives #second

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#american flag #flag #freedom #history #national

Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#access #america #american #american people #care

An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#part #played #tragedy #which

By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#before #care #collaborate #compete #connect

You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#aspirations #concept #connecting #gut #insecurities