![The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born in that era, the seed of the idea, was perfect.More important, the idea itself carried within it the moral power to correct the contradictions in its execution that were obvious from the very birth of the new nation.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-human-beings-at-the-helm-of-the-new-nation-usa-whatever-their-limitations.jpg)
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USA TODAY hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation. Al Neuharth
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In the UK a lot of people don't like to try. There's a different cultural thing. Here [in USA] if you try and fail, you get up again and start again and keep going. People respect you for it. Even if you keep failing, they respect the tenacity. Eddie Izzard
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I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost. Arne Jacobsen
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The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there. Kurt Vonnegut
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Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over. Carl Andre
usa asking buttons
Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?' Dennis Lehane
usa missing unexpected
The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected. Bob Barker
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The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system. Diane Watson
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La galantería y la honra tienen esta ventaja, que se quedan: aquélla en quien la usa, ésta en quien la haze. Baltasar Gracian
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People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is. Charles Stanley
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Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. Alan Perlis
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It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it. Alan Moore
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A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.
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Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.
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There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.
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Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.
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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.
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My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere. Akon
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People have called Christopher Columbus horrible, racist, a psycho-maniac killer and a slave owner. Rush Limbaugh
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. Victor Hugo
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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good. Oscar Wilde
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The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves
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The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind. The slave owners justified slavery as protecting the slaves. Henry George