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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

American Emperor Nod Rather
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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

Around Catalyst Choosing Direction
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They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.
American Asian Boy Call
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It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

Fellow Important Likes Me
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I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

African Case Church Community
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The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world.

American Civil Corporate Down
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

American Ample Constitution Enduring
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Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.

Advanced American Among Art
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Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.

American Among Artist Be Different
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

Become Best Best Part Cease
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I really have the American dream licked.
American American Dream Dream Really
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Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

Again American Any Commit
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Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

American Average Average American Before
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I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.

Am Blow Buffalo Clean
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Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.

American Fully Immigration Law-Abiding
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Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Feel Fortunate Prescription Responsibility
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In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

American Asian Classes Concepts
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Millions of Americans and people around the world, especially young people who face intense financial challenges today, haven't been taught how to take control of their financial future.

Challenges Control Face Financial
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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Form Government Grown Hostile
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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

American Determine Free Hand
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There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one's cultural superiority.

African Aid Appreciate Cultural
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Why do Angelina Jolie and Bono receive overwhelming attention for their work in Africa while Nwankwo Kanu or Dikembe Mutombo, Africans both, are hardly ever mentioned?

Africa African Angelina Jolie Attention
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Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like the Nigerian Ben Okri or the Mozambican Mia Couto.

Ben Country Dream Feels
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Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.

Address American Future Must
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I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

American Black Definition I Think
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I feel like it's not Africans who are afraid of China's rise in Africa. It's the West that's afraid of China's rise in Africa.

Afraid Africa African China
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I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

About African America Away
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.

American Experiences Individuals Parents
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I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

Accent Latin Mean Mexican
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

American Could Directors Discrimination
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We will get our people off of welfare and back to work - rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor.

Welfare Labor Country Work
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

About Art Background Candy
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I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

Honor Life Mexican Pride
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Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what's happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We're no longer a respected country.

Bad Confidence Country Happening
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People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.

Time Cards Deal Rid
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Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

Always American Away Deadly
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

There Is One Day
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I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.

Have Called America De Maupassant
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

African Fear General Know
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I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so many millions of our young people. And they listenin'.

African-American Because Ear Greater
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

Accident Americana Culture Declaration
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Concentrate Essential Important Most
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The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

Balance Challenge Faced Man
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Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Being Better Between Challenges
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Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

Environmentalism
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What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

Accessible Almost Anyone Difference
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I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

Against Am American American Dream
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It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

Cry Fact Hitherto Indeed
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.

Been Cup Different Game
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We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

African-American Assume Bad Bad Situation
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