americans

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

He showed the words __hocolate cake_ to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. __uilt_ was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: __elebration.

I had always been warned that American didn't always get sarcasm

To be an American is to be accosted by bigotry and enmity for the rights that you were told to appreciate.

The few Americans he had encountered in his lifetime had all seemed flat to him, as if freedom weakened one's capacity for intense emotion by demanding too little of it.

Maybe the Americans should have brought baseballs instead of bombs.

Before you leave here, Sir, you__e going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

People always kept moving, her mother had said, it's the American way. Moving west, moving south, marrying up, marrying down, getting divorced - but moving...

Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.

What is the difference? Tell me what is the difference between you and me. We both kill for what we want," the man asks."We lived here first.

That's my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest all you want, but you were born on the wrong continent.

In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade__hich is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to __ow much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?_ is __o fuck yourself,_ because you can__ directly relate any of those quantities.

So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt like it.

In America, they make a lot of fuss over little things.

...Americans didn__ stick to cities, which makes us different from the people in other industrialized countries. We no sooner arrived in town, turning those towns into great mid-century metropolises, than we decided to take off for the green world beyond, so that by the 1970 Census, we had become the first suburban nation in the history of the world. And Detroit led the way, with a population curve up and down just like everywhere else, but with its urban decline a lot steeper over the past sixty years__o typical a place that it only looks like an exception.

Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.

Pennsylvania the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.