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We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.


Lisa Bonet


#american tradition #around #hold #just #native

Perhaps this was the first instance of that quiet way of "speaking for" a place not yet occupied, or at least not improved as much as it may be, which their descendants have practised, and are still practising so extensively. Not Any seems to have been the sole proprietor of all America before the Yankees [...] At any rate, I know that if you hold a thing unjustly, there will surely be the devil to pay at last.


Henry David Thoreau


#nature #philosophy #nature

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.


Robert Bork


#another #another way #basic #being #democracy

As the 29th state to join the United States of America, it is our turn to show the nation what represents Iowa. Our commitment to quality education, hard work, and small-town values are all represented in the Iowa quarter.


Leonard Boswell


#commitment #education #hard #hard work #iowa

The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.


Leonard Boswell


#american dream #children #college #college education #dream

I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.


Rachel Weisz


#different #dress #grooming #i #i love

The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.


Melissa Bean


#american people #briefly #budget #common #common sense

The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.


Maurice Hinchey


#american #any #citizenry #companies #conscience

But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.


Lake Bell


#america #community #depiction #how #i

I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.


Ahmed Ben Bella


#america #arranged #came #combatants #created