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Donald Trump, an oft-bankrupt make-believe mogul clown with a television show where he pretends to fire America's saddest former celebrities, is one of the Republican Party's most prominent national figures because he is on TV and people have heard of him.

~Alex Pareene

Topics: America Because Celebrities Clown Donald Donald Trump Figures Fire Former He Heard Him Make-Believe Most National Party People Pretends Prominent Republican Saddest Show Television Television Show Trump Tv Where

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We are actually a very rich country with a lot of resources and the ability to do almost whatever we want. We could eliminate poverty in America by spending a fraction of what we spend on defense.

~Alex Pareene

Topics: Ability Actually Almost America Could Country Defense Eliminate Fraction Lot Poverty Resources Rich Spend Spending Very Want Whatever

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In the '70s, Florida-style golf communities started to be built for America's baby-boomers who were doing well and taking up the game but couldn't get into exclusive golf and tennis clubs and were looking for a nice place to live and raise their families.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: America Built Clubs Communities Doing Exclusive Families Game Get Golf Live Looking Nice Place Raise Started Taking Tennis Up Well Were Who

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Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more than 145 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined, the Amazon's main stem was connected to the Niger River and actually flowed in the opposite direction, toward the Pacific Ocean.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Actually Africa Amazon America Connected Direction Flat Holds Joined Main Million Million Years More Most Ocean Opposite Opposite Direction Pacific Pacific Ocean Pancake River School South South America Stem Than Thought Toward Were Years Years Ago

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In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Able Almost Almost All America Block Change City Governments Group People Small Small Group Want Who

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There is no right to a job or a wage rate, but there is a right to move from one country to another in search of a better life. This is the point of view of Thomas Jefferson, John Locke and other great supporters of the natural rights tradition in America.

~Alex Tabarrok

Topics: America Another Better Better Life Country Great Jefferson Job John Life Move Natural Natural Rights One Country Other Point Point Of View Rate Right Rights Search Supporters Thomas Thomas Jefferson Tradition View Wage

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America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of living, America should continue to embrace those qualities which have made America great: openness and dynamism. Openness to new technologies, new ideas and new people is America's greatest source of strength.

~Alex Tabarrok

Topics: America Any Continue Country Dynamism Embrace Enhance Entire Entire World Great Greatest Highest Ideas Living Made Maintain Major New New Ideas New People New Technologies Openness People Qualities Should Source Standard Strength Technologies Those Which World

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In the America that I grew up in, men of Asia placed last in the hierarchy of manhood. They were invisible in the high-testosterone arenas of politics, big business, and sports. On television and in the movies, they were worse than invisible. They were embarrassing. We were embarrassing.

~Alex Tizon

Topics: America Arenas Asia Big Big Business Business Embarrassing Grew Hierarchy Invisible Last Manhood Men Movies Placed Politics Sports Television Than Up Were Worse

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'War and Peace' holds a strange place in literary history, participating in the crowning of realism as a substantial and serious literary mode in America, even as the novel also contributed to the argument that historical fiction could be by nature dangerous, illegitimate, and inaccurate.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Also America Argument Could Crowning Dangerous Even Fiction Historical Historical Fiction History Holds Illegitimate Inaccurate Literary Mode Nature Novel Participating Peace Place Realism Serious Strange Substantial War

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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

~Alexander Graham Bell

Topics: America Country Greatest Inventors Men Newspaper

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