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It's wrong, and it's racist, and it's bigoted to say that guns are quintessentially American.

~Alan Dershowitz

Topics: American Guns Say Wrong

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Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.

~Alan Dundes

Topics: American Disregard Future Past Tend

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Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

~Alan Dundes

Topics: American Ancestors Asian Characteristic Children Cultures Does Example Favor For Example Grandparents Piety Really Resonate Who Worship

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I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

~Alan Dundes

Topics: American Formulas Future Involves Mentioned Past Present Time Worldview

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Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

~Alan Dundes

Topics: American Enjoying Moment Often Present Present Moment Trouble

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Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.

~Alan Dundes

Topics: Almost American Believe Certainly Joke Kernel Progress Truth

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We're the roughest people in the way we play and live, and that is because Americans come from people who all got up one morning and went 5,000 miles, and that was a time in the 19th century when it wasn't so easy to do.

~Alan Furst

Topics: American Because Century Come Easy Got Live Miles Morning One Morning People Play Time Up Way Who 19Th Century

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I was a typical American boy. I did a lot of outdoor activities, played a lot outside with my friends, loved to go the beach, liked to hike, boating and fishing, and I flew a lot of model airplanes as well.

~Alan G. Poindexter

Topics: Activities Airplane American Beach Boy Did Fishing Flew Friends Go Hike Liked Lot Loved Model Outdoor Outside Played Typical Well

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Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly skilled people who are prevented from immigrating to the United States. But we need such skills in order to staff our productive economy, so that the standard of living for Americans as a whole can grow.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: American Being Competition Country Economy Grow Highly Incomes Living Most Need Order Our People Productive Protection Realize Skilled Skills Staff Standard States United United States Who Whole

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When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren't self-reliant on the prairie, you wouldn't survive.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: American American History Back Canadian Different Go History Look Prairie Survive Terribly Were You

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