America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.

To Americans, either/or means both. — Brian Spellman, If the mind fits, shrink it

I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almost like the military — Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn’t true. — Julian Houston, New Boy

Washingtonians love the "So-and-so is spinning in his grave" cliché. Someone is always speculating about how some great — Mark Leibovich, This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral — plus plenty of valet parking! — in America’s Gilded Capital

$Television hols up a mirror to the true nature of family life today. For the first time people see themselves reflected and refracted within its curved glass screen: helping them to define who the are — a rescheduling of life in the suburban living room has taken place.$

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their ne — Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the current obsession wi — Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by — David Mamet

[N]ow that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americ — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

If I hadn't trained Lula Ann properly she wouldn't have known to always cross the street and avoid white boys. — Toni Morrison, God Help the Child

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfecti — W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale

Sandra L. West and Aberjhani have compiled an encyclopedia that makes an important contribution to our need to know more — Clement Alexander Price, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.

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