#american

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

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The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#american dream #best #best work #compromise #dream

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#american #american football #ball #ball games #baseball

And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

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If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

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American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success. ↗

— Rand Paul

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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. ↗

— Rand Paul

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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die. ↗

— Rand Paul

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In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify. ↗

— Rand Paul

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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective. ↗

— Rand Paul

#american history #any #capitalism #cold #cold war