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If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survi...

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John BuchanThe 39 Steps

It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spr...

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The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from ...

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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

It is evident that the chief feeling induced by woody country is one of reverence for its antiquity....

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To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ...

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....let her be loved not only for her beauty and amiable character, but also for her strength of min...

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José RizalLiham para sa Kababaihan ng Malolos

How long have you been away from the country?" Laruja asked Ibarra."Almost seven years.""Then you ha...

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Events went on to show that it is not by chance that a prime minister reaches such lofty heights and...

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José SaramagoDeath with Interruptions

Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a countr...

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The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regime...

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The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see...

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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its ...

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My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, educa...

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This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.

New tech explosions create winners and losers, but overall are remarkably positive for the country, ...

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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is e...

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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's t...

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There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this c...

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We might define an eccentric as a man who is law unto himself and a crank as one who having determi...

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It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to l...

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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it ...

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The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No coun...

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My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pu...

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If he had known unstructured space is a delugeand stocked his log house-boat with all the animals ev...

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We have to face the fact that countries are going to lose jobs to robotics. The only question that n...

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for years now there had been no country here but the war.

Loving a country is an act of the imagination.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whos...

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Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your ...

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May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer a...

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Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction...

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Every country has the right to nuclear technology as long as they use it safely, peacefully and in a...

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One seldom expects the country's president to adequately note the passing of a rocker, but Jimmy Car...

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Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntle...

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India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.

In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so for...

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The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our ...

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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sen...

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Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to erad...

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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole ch...

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Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this cou...

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Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this cou...

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Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this cou...

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Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this cou...

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We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any ot...

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My hair is way, way long. I've hitchhiked across the country a zillion times. I've ridden in every c...

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No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United Sta...

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Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demand...

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Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the cou...

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Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining but they make them artificial.

We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided.

The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we d...

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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

People spend their entire lives at those lower altitudes without any awareness that this high countr...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

So I pulled the sun screen down and squinted and put the throttle to the floor. And kept on moving w...

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We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it...

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It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't availabl...

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we coul...

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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much ...

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The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to th...

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The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his...

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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all...

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The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have t...

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The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ...

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(ghost of)ACHILLES: How can I force obedience on this? In other times I've used the fear of death to...

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Sheri S. TepperThe Gate to Women's Country

HECUBA: I had a knife in my skirt, Achilles. When Talthybius bent over me, I could have killed him. ...

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Sheri S. TepperThe Gate to Women's Country

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their wa...

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To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;But I’m a timid town bred child,A...

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When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your co...

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We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal ...

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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to...

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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but tha...

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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but betwe...

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America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles n...

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There used to be this country called the Soviet Union it's not there anymore. Our technology was bet...

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I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

I love America. It's such a positive country.

In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t differ from...

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In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)