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“Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.”

Believe May Able America Found Sound Common Raised Divorce Accepted Ridiculous Over It Equations

Author:Trisha Yearwood

“So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.”

Knows Dream America Found Growing Up Growing Possibility Filled Excitement American Dream Living The American Dream

Author:Mia Love

“We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.”

Source: A Fighting Chance

“You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta that suddenly I could be a new person . . . What America offers me is romanticism and hope . . . Suddenly, I found myself in a country where”

Persons Ideas Country America Found Felt Cities Stage Offers Transformation Romanticism Iowa Calcutta

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic. It's about the soul of America, really. What people brought to America; what found them when they came; and the things that lie sleeping beneath it all.”

People Book Soul America Romance Lying Found Sleep Secret Magic Danger Strange Mirrors Depth

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.”

People Knows World Whole America Found Land Yeah West Flats Columbus West Indies

Author:Bill Cowher

“I bet you, if I had met Trotsky, and had had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I have never yet met a man I didn't like.”

Ifs Men Humans America Found Interesting Mets Fellows Very Interesting Trotsky

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because all those who came here believed they could create upon this continent a new life -- a life that should be new in freedom.”

World Should Has Beens America Found Land Tongue New World Continents New Life

Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“No woman has ever stepped on Little America - and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.”

World Littles America Found Silent Peaceful Places In The World Peaceful Places

Author:Richard E. Byrd

“American's greatest deficit is no longer found in the federal budget. It is a moral deficit, and it may be found in a polluted and poisoned culture that has become the great enemy within.”

May America Culture Found Moral Enemy Budgets Deficit Enemy Within

Author:Pat Buchanan

“America has shown we are serious about removing the threat of weapons of mass destruction... We now know that Saddam Hussein had the capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction.... We know he had the necessary infrastructure because we found the labs and the dual-use facilities that could be used for these chemical and biological agents. We know that he was developing the delivery systems - ballistic missiles - that had been prohibited by the United Nations.”

“It's been over a year since they've graduated, but neither of the Bush twins have found any work. Why don't they sign up (for military service in Iraq)? Do they hate America, or just freedom in general?”

Years America Hate Found Military Iraq Twins Military Service

Author:Bill Maher

“The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.”

Long America Order Found Doors Conditions Fronts Seeking Atmosphere Asia Discontent Knocking Columbus Front Doors Back Doors

Book:Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes

Source: Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes

“What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy.”

Knows America Found Force Morality Civilization Capable Concepts Objectives Psychological Propaganda Interpretation Distortion Psychotherapy Perversion Belated

Author:Brock Chisholm

“The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the early '60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress.”

World America Found Behavior Dresses Coming Out

Author:Mick Jagger