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Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all. ↗

— Leo Burnett

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Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics. ↗

— Ken Burns

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Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America. ↗

— Ken Burns

#accurate #america #century #curiously #jazz

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

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Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years. ↗

— David Wain

#audience #cable #course #disappointment #etc

Nector [speaking to Bernadette] could have told her, having drunk down the words of Nanapush, that comfort is not security and money in the hand disappears. He could have told her that only the land matters and never to let go of the papers, the titles, the tracks of the words, all those things that his ancestors never understood how the vital relationship to the dirt and grass under their feet. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#native-american #ojibwe #prophesy #treaty #money

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning. ↗

— Robert Burton

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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

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I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know. ↗

— Redd Foxx

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