#mer

I like American history. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#american history #history #i #like

Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is ‘open-minded’ and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware. ↗

— Julius Evola

#paradoxical #truth #religion

The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime's Funniest Person in America. And that's a really tough title to travel around with when you're not even known. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#around #aware #even #first #first time

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#anybody #makes #more #nobody #space

I was a big Transformers fan. ↗

— Brad Delson

#fan #i #transformers

Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#anything #implausible #may #palin #possible

Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#armies #could #defeat #dozen #enabled

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

#bound #charities #children #christmas #find

More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#been #commercial #industry #jobs #lost

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant. ↗

— Anatole France

#cheated #had #honest #honest people #merchant