Central American

Famous quotes containing the words central and/or american:

    “The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious—that is, a disease not understood—in an era in which medicine’s central premise is that all diseases can be cured.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.”
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