#ric

In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth. ↗

— Levi Strauss

#back #been #bring #days #india

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ancestry #dreamed #ever #helping #i

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.' ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #black #course #i #knew

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#even #harder #man #perhaps #poor

Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and technical fields. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#america #american #clear #continent #contributions

But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.' ↗

— Ted Strickland

#back #building #going #made #men

It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were. ↗

— Avrum Stroll

#categorical #characteristic #demand #epistemological #partial

To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric. ↗

— Danny Sugerman

#his #hotel #hotel room #jail #just

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book. ↗

— Joe Strummer

#arabic #began #book #british #cause

When one person does something that works, everyone else wants to do it. So it didn't surprise me at all to see people come with different versions of 'American Idol' and a lot of them are exactly the same but with different twists. ↗

— Ruben Studdard

#american idol #come #different #does #else