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What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

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I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money. ↗

— Phil Gramm

#american politics #friend #i #money #most

Caring for veterans shouldn't be a partisan issue. It should an American one. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#caring #issue #partisan #should #veterans

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#african american #american #anybody #kid #like

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

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Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country? ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#american people #country #left #long #outrage

Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer. ↗

— John Green

#center #chicago #city #during #economic

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle. ↗

— John Green

#american #because #disease #epic #family

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class. ↗

— Dick Gregory

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I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too. ↗

— Dick Gregory

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