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America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land. – Philip James Bailey

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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin

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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. – John Updike

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America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. – Gloria Steinem

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The freedom we have in America is like breathing in an entire open field of fresh air all at once. Sometimes too much air can be stifling. – Amali Ryvre, 2007

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