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American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.
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American ‘energy’ is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism and acquisitiveness. Into hectic philanthropy. Into benighted moral crusades, the most spectacular of which was Prohibition. Into an awesome talent for uglifying countryside and cities. Into the loquacity and torment of a minority of gadflies: artists, prophets, muckrakers, cranks, and nuts.nd into self-punishing neuroses. But the naked violence keeps breaking through, throwing everything into question.
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American energy is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism and acquisitiveness. Into hectic philanthropy. Into benighted moral crusades, the most spectacular of which was Prohibition. Into an awesome talent for uglifying countryside and cities. Into the loquacity and torment of a minority of gadflies: artists, prophets, muckrakers, cranks, and nuts. And into self-punishing neuroses. But the naked violence keeps breaking through, throwing everything into question.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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American is a very difficult language mixed with English.
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American preachers have a task more difficult, perhaps, than those faced by us under South Africas apartheid, or Christians under Communism. We had obvious evils to engage; you have to unwrap your culture from years of red, white and blue myth. You have to expose, and confront, the great disconnect between the kindness, compassion and caring of most American people, and the ruthless way American power is experienced, directly and indirectly, by the poor of the earth. You have to help good people see how they have let their institutions do their sinning for them. This is not easy among people who really believe that their country does nothing but good, but it is necessary, not only for their future, but for us all.
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American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this centurys major wars. In the First World War 5 per cent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 per cent, while in a Third World War 90-95 per cent would be civilians.
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be…
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Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
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Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
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Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of Americas official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them.
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Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
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Americans care more for the lives of their pets than they do for the lives of the Palestianians.
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Americans’ great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
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Americans have always been eager for travel, that being how they got to the New World in the first place.
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Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
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Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.
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Americans like fat books and thin women.
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Americans love their captivity. There’s no responsibility. When you’re a captive, you don’t have to make a decision about anything, though you have no Liberty. People don’t want Liberty. Liberty is nothing but uncertainty. It’s much easier to have someone tell you where you’ll be, what you’ll do and who you’ll pay tomorrow than to worry about it yourself. The same goes for what you think.
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Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un.
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