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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

—Jules Renard

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America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

—James T. Farrell

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The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.

—Raymond Chandler

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Although the desire of acquiring the good things of this world is the prevailing passion of the American people, certain momentary outbreaks occur when their souls seem suddenly to burst the bonds of matter by which they are restrained and to soar impetuously toward heaven.

—Alexis de Tocqueville

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America, thou half brother of the world, with something good and bad of every land.

—Philip James Bailey

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I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

—Bob Dylan

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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to cooperate.

—Margaret Mead

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John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. This helps explain why American culture is so hostile to the idea of limits, why voters during the last energy shortage rejected the sweater-wearing Jimmy Carter and elected Ronald Reagan who told them it was still "morning in America." Nowhere does the myth of progress have more fervent believers.

—Ronald Wright

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How hard it is for Americans, even Americans of goodwill, not to consider themselves the center of the universe.

—Simone de Beauvoir

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America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

—Arnold Toynbee

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They call it the “American Dream” because you have to be asleep to believe it.

—George Carlin

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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

—Richard Feynman

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I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

—Jean Kerr

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

—Peter Drucker

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Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

—Russel Lynes

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