>>The people in the United States are not radically different from people in other countries, so all of this is really no guarantee.
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>Well, much to the chagrin of some parts of the world, this country didn't become the most powerful and the most charitable country in the world because it has passive, weak people.
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>American's are the only ones that can destroy America.
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>Ok. I'm coming off the soap box.
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>That's enough corny comments for now....
What does "coming off the soap box" mean?
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)