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If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

~Albert Brooks

Topics: About American Days Detective Fiction Hunting List Look Sequels Serial Stories You

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The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

Topics: American Brought Colonies Conquest Contact Dutch Free Had Institutions Later Netherlands Residence Settlers Wise

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In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

Topics: American Commonwealth Comparison Destined Distinguished Foundation Ideas Men New Other Political Possession Social Time Were Which

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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

~Albert Einstein

Topics: American Cruel Dollar Even Libel Look Many Themselves Too Us

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I am not an African. I am an American.

~Albert Murray

Topics: African Am American I Am

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Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular or idiomatic modification of musical conventions imported from Europe, beginning back during the time of the early settlers of the original colonies.

~Albert Murray

Topics: Also American Back Beginning Case Colonies Conventions Early Essentially Europe Gospel Imported Jazz Jazz Music Jubilee Jumps Modification Music Musical Old Original Settlers Songs Time Vernacular

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A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song.

~Albert Murray

Topics: American Based Blues Chorus Composition Either Jazz Melody Popular Song Traditional Tune

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But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information.

~Alberto Gonzales

Topics: Access American American People Certain Congress Determination Even Information Kinds Made May People Protected Though Want

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The dynamic has really changed in the U.S. Americans believe they can be competitive, that they can win medals.

~Alberto Salazar

Topics: American Believe Changed Competitive Dynamic Medals Really Win

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Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

~Albio Sires

Topics: American Class College College Education Daughters Education Essential Families Future Future Success Many Middle Middle Class School Send Sons Struggling Success

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