"The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is..."

Lewis, Sinclair on america
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"America and its demons, Europe and its ghost."

Le Monde on america
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"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy."

Kronenberger, Louis on america   

"America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an American than his parents. Americans regard children as what Mr. Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs called betters. Aping their betters, American adults do their best to turn themselves into children. Puerility exercises droit de seigneur everywhere."

King, Florence on america   

"If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green. If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won t."

Faulkner, William on america
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"I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on america
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"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."

Barthes, Roland on alienation
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"I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old."

Gabriel, Peter on age and aging   

"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young."

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing on age and aging
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

Eliot, T. S. on age and aging
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"I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on age and aging   

"Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up."

Edwards, Tryon on age and aging
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"Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old."

Edwards, Tryon on age and aging
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"It is not how old you are, but how you are old."

Dressler, Marie on age and aging
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"Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret."

Disraeli, Benjamin on age and aging   

"Without alienation, there can be no politics."

Miller, Arthur on alienation
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"America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick."

Abish, Walter on america
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"We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans."

Askew, Ruben on america
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"I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged."

Dylan, Bob on america
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"America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on america
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"At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on america
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"America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."

Clemenceau, Georges on america
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"The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt."

Chandler, Raymond on america
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"America is a land where men govern, but women rule."

Brown, John Mason on america
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"America, America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea."

Bates, Katherine Lee on america   

"America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks."

Barrymore, John on america
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"It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die."

Asquith, Margot on america
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"Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life."

Dickens, Charles on age and aging
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"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment."

Seneca on advice
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"The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking."

Phaedrus on amusement   

"A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice."

Cosby, Bill on advice
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"Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor."

Collins, John Churton on advice   

"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it."

Collins, John Churton on advice
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"In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice."

Churchill, Winston on advice
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"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on advice
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"Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel."

Chapman, George on advice
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"The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is."

Brooks, Phillips on advice
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"Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take."

Billings, Josh on advice
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"A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others. [Proverbs 12:15]"

Bible on advice
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"Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one."

Ball, Ivern on advice
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