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So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

Fredric Jameson

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Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.

Bill James

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I'd rather be on a label that understands us and allows us to be a bit odd.

Sean Booth

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Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.

Nicholas Kristof

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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.

Martha Washington

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Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.

Al Franken

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Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.

Hill Harper

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New York gives us a wide colour palette to cook from. We have cuisines from around the world, and that lets us pick and choose.

David Chang

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I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.

Vivica A. Fox

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Any idiot can throw together a program or report and shove it out, but to get the balance and to get the skill set, that is what they pay us for. They don't pay us to prattle on the television; anybody can do that.

Richard Quest

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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

George Eliot

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The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas.

Kevin Ayers

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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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We're all part of humanity. And maybe there's something about the worst people, with the most destructive, warped minds, that is just an acceleration of something that is in quite a few of us.

Bill Pullman

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The ability to save automatically is among the most powerful tools available to us.

Sendhil Mullainathan

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People love Jane Austen, even though those books are absurd to us, because we like the clarity of it: we can see very clearly what Elizabeth Bennett has to overcome, what she has to deal with.

Nick Hornby

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Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.

Mark Pagel

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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

Adam Smith

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All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

Hillary Clinton

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But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

David Dinkins

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We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

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David Lynch was very good, very patient with us, and the reaction in the United States seems pretty good.

Richard Farnsworth

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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

George Haven Putnam

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I wouldn't have voted for the war in Iraq, which has cost us trillions we could have been spending on a carbon-free economy, affordable college, and single-payer health care.

Kevin de Leon

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