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«Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.»
«A world in which others controlled the course of their own development ... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.»
Author: Benjamin Cohen
| About:
America and Americans,
World
| Keywords:
American System, controlled, control system, development, endanger, endangered, endangers, of their own, The American
«There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed.»
Author: John O'Toole
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
American System, economic system, products
«The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people»
Author: Phil Gramm
| About:
America and Americans,
Freedom
| Keywords:
American elder, American System, ordinary people, Plain People, The Genius
«The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
| Keywords:
American culture, American System, Branded, fare, flavors, free of, fuel, gallons, highway, highway system, Howard, Howard Johnson, improved, isolated, Johnson, local, nationally, pilgrims, speedway, superhighway, superhighways, towns, transit, traverse, traversed, traversing
«The American system of rugged individualism.»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| Keywords:
American System, individualism, rugged, rugged individualism
«The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.»
Author: Octavio Paz
| Keywords:
adaptation, adaptations, American System, aspects, churches, church school, contained, endlessly, flowerpot, formulas, imprisoned, inexorable, in brief, in the north, kindly, mature, mother church, North, North A, North American, North by, radio, repeated, schemes, school system, sinister, subjected, the North, the press, to the north
«Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.»
Author: Truman Capote
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
American System, amounts, appeals, attorney, attorneys, criminal, doomsday, game of chance, interminably, jurisprudence, moderate, participant, participants, pervades, postpone, somewhat, the participants, the system, The Wheel of Fortune, wheel
«America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
American System, control system, dreamers, happening, nightmare, set up, spontaneous, wipe
«The most American thing about America is the free common school system»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| Keywords:
American System, common school, school system
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