America

(22 votes)   By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Negro Blood... is a Negro. Logically, it would be exactly as justifiable to say that any person with even a small amount of white blood is white. Why do they say one rather than the other? Because the former classification suits the convenience of those making the classification. Society, in short, regards as true those systems that produce the desired results. Science seeks only the most generally useful systems of classification; these it regards for the time being, until more useful classifications are invented, as true.

S. I. Hayakawa
1902-1992, Canadian Born American Senator, Educator

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(21 votes)   On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment -- half- time.

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(21 votes)   There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(19 votes)   The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.

Octavio Paz
1914-, Mexican Poet, Essayist

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(18 votes)   A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman

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