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America Quotes - Page 120

The condition of your birth doesn't determine the outcome of your life. This is America.

"NPR's Interview With House Speaker Paul Ryan On Poverty And Politics". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. July 15, 2016.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891). Similar dialogue appears inWilde's A Woman of No Importance (1893) as well. See OliverWendell Holmes 4

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

"Always expect the unexpected". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.wired.com. April 1, 2007.

Nothing would please me more, but who else would pump the oil that we need? God damn America.

"MIDDLE EAST: The Arab World: Oil, Power, Violence". content.time.com. April 2, 1973.

Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country.

Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel