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George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted above ability because of circumstance and organisation and empathy. You don't have to be intelligent. A moron in a hurry could know that you don't prevent war by having a war.

~David Lange

Topics: Ability Above American Because Bush Circumstance Condition Could Empathy George George W George W. Bush Having Hurry Intelligent Know Moron Organisation Outcome Person Prevent Promoted Someone Ultimate War Who You

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We do not wish to have nuclear weapons on New Zealand soil or in our harbors. We do not ask, we do not expect, the United States to come to New Zealand's assistance with nuclear weapons or to present American nuclear capability as a deterrent to an attacker.

~David Lange

Topics: American Ask Assistance Capability Come Deterrent Expect New New Zealand Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Our Present Soil States United United States Weapons Wish Zealand

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President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.

~David Letterman

Topics: American Approval Become Bush Does Either He Hell Need President President Bush Said Thinking Un Voters Wage War Well

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I believe I have voted for both Democrats and Republicans. Am I either one? Absolutely not. Ladies and gentlemen, I am an American.

~David Letterman

Topics: Absolutely Absolutely Not Am American Believe Both Democrats Democrats And Republicans Either Gentlemen Ladies Republicans Voted I Am I Believe

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It was clear to many American working men and women that the Homestead Steel Strike of the early 1890s, when Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick broke the backs of the steel workers, that that was a watershed.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: American Andrew Backs Broke Carnegie Clay Clear Early Henry Homestead Many Men Men And Women Steel Strike Women Workers Working

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Philosophically, Dubois may have had no problem with a great African American institution. On the other hand, he always believed ultimately in the co-mingling of groups and the interplay of talents and in the collaboration of groups.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: African African American Always American Believed Collaboration Great Groups Had Hand He Institution May No Problem Other Philosophically Problem Talents Ultimately

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The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: African African Americans American Blow Commitment Degree Each Expectation Failure Fatalism Finally Going More Much Point Repeated Scenario Seems Skepticism Some Story Success Until Where Work

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I felt in my bones that Alfred Kazin was right to suggest that 'the deepest side of being American is the sense of being like nothing before us in history' - a historical conceit that privileged biography as the narrative of the exceptionalist experience.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: American Before Being Biography Bones Conceit Deepest Experience Felt Historical History Like Narrative Nothing Privileged Right Sense Side Suggest Us

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I came into my teens unaware that most Americans, blacks as well as whites, were ignorant of the main facts of Negro history. And so it was the facts of other histories that I found most intriguing. I fell into a U.S. history major by chance late in my second year at Fisk University.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: American Blacks Came Chance Facts Fell Found Histories History Ignorant Intriguing Late Main Major Most Other Second Teens Unaware University Well Were Whites Year I Came

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Government doesn't do much for the new Americans. The assumption is that they'll take care of themselves if they work hard enough.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: American Assumption Care Enough Government Hard Much New Take Take Care Themselves Work Work Hard

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