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Bacon has been a staple of the American diet since the first European settlers, but until recently, it was consumed in a predictable, seasonal pattern. The bulk of sales came from home consumers, diners, and pancake houses, which fried it up along with eggs for breakfast.

~David Sax

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I didn't come to Washington to fight against my Republican colleagues, or even against my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. I came to Washington to fight for the values that make our country unique - for the economic freedom that gives life to the American Dream.

~David Schweikert

Topics: Against Aisle American American Dream Came Colleagues Come Country Dream Economic Economic Freedom Even Fight Freedom Gives Life Make Other Our Republican Side Unique Values Washington I Came

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Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.

~David Scott

Topics: About American American People Down Forget Friends Going Government Make Make No Mistake Mistake Never People Republicans Shut Who You

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People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.

~David Sedaris

Topics: Always American American Culture Ask Back Country Culture Foreign Foreign Country Hate Just Live Miss Moving Myself Nothing People See Shame States Thought Understand United United States Would Ubiquitous

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The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.

~David Shields

Topics: American Credible Describe Full Hands His Make Much Reality Then Trying Understand Writer

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Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of sports.

~David Shields

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I try to be as honest as I possibly can about the contradictions within my own heart and thereby get to something 'true' and revealing and important about contemporary American culture and human nature.

~David Shields

Topics: About American American Culture Contemporary Contradictions Culture Get Heart Honest Human Human Nature Important My Own Nature Own Possibly Revealing Something Thereby True Try Within

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I argued strongly to the American publisher that 'Reality Hunger' should come out first. They thought that 'The Thing About Life' would have more appeal because it's on a broader topic; it's about mortality rather than art.

~David Shields

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What we know about American medicine is that our supply of health-care professionals is not equally distributed. In rural areas, we have severe shortages.

~David Shulkin

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I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.

~David Souter

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