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Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. – H.G. Wells

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The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it. – H.G. Wells

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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. – H.G. Wells

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America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven mens cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick. – Walter Abish

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I always tell myself: You can do better than this. The best slogan I can think of to leave with the U.S.A. would be: We can do and we’ve got to do better than this. – Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991)

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America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them. – James Michener

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