#erica

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it. ↗

— Theodore White

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When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella. ↗

— Theodore White

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You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter. ↗

— Shaun White

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication. ↗

— Theodore White

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Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America. ↗

— Theodore White

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Politics in America is the binding secular religion. ↗

— Theodore White

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With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind. ↗

— Theodore White

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We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him. ↗

— Margaret Whiting

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Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries. ↗

— Meg Whitman

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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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