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America is a young country with an old mentality.
(George Santayana (1863-1952), U.S. philosopher, poet. Winds of Doctrine, ch. 6 (1913).)
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.
(Jerry Garcia (1942-1995), U.S. rock musician. Rolling Stone (New York, Nov. 30, 1989).)
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America is a young country with an old mentality.
(George Santayana (1863-1952), U.S. philosopher, poet. Winds of Doctrine, ch. 6 (1913).)
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The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
(Allan Bloom (1930-1992), U.S. educator, author. "Two Revolutions and Two States of Nature," pt. 2, The Closing of the American Mind (1987).)
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Outside America I should hardly be believed if I told how simply, in my experience, Dover Street merged into the Back Bay.
(Mary Antin (1881-1949), U.S. socialite and author; born in Russia. The Promised Land, ch. 20 (1912).
A Russian Jew who emigrated to the United States at age 15 and settled on Dover Street in the Boston slums, Antin attended prestigious Barnard College and made her way up into the social world represented by Boston's elite Back Bay neighborhood.)
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That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.
(Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 24, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988).)
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America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Address Delivered in Concord on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies, August 1, 1844," Miscellanies (1883, repr. 1903).
Edward Emerson notes that "Boston Hymn" sings a similar sentiment. Emerson is not commenting on the nature of African civilization, but noting the barbarity of the slave trade on its shores.)
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America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
(Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century), U.S. editor, writer. Family and Politics, ch. 3 (1983).)
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