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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)

This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal...

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Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a h...

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Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

The town is man's world but this (country life) is of God.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

There is nothing good to be had in the country or if there be they will not let you have it.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

The wind picked up, shaking the trees below. She had the sense of being in the country. In the count...

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And in the past, Archie wondered, was it just that fewer people cheated? Were they more honest, and ...

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It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I ho...

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The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.

The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.

Élodie, who was rising fifteen, lifted her anaemic, puffy, virginal face with its wispy hair; she wa...

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In my own shire, if I was sadHomely comforters I had:The earth, because my heart was sore,Sorrowed f...

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Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world?It’s not the greatest country in the wo...

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Aaron SorkinThe Newsroom Script Episode 1

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear ...

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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the coun...

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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other me...

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— This world is full of trouble, umfundisi.— Who knows it better?— Yet you believe? Kumalo looked a...

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within ...

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I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate ...

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There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular c...

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There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular c...

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A hick town is one in which there is no place to go where you shouldn't be.

Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on ...

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It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz....

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India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.

And you know once a man has fished, or watched the thrushes hovering in flocks over the village in t...

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Anton ChekhovThe Complete Short Novels

I do know that Syria never will recognize Lebanon as an independent country, and the declaration of ...

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how...

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Would you believe it? Would you believe it. Okay, this is WLRB, all-talk radio. Take a short break, ...

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In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn’t a country; it’s a near-death experience.

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Bill BrysonNeither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that t...

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What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

Sweden is an open, liberal, secular and democratic country. We strive towards achieving equality; we...

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If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admi...

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There's only two kinds of music I don't like... Country and Western.

Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world.Yeah, I know there are more important th...

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That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of...

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The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producin...

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I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for gra...

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All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

As the graying of the country continues its march forward, many retirees are now relocating to dense...

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We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this count...

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It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to ...

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One of my pet peeves is when people think that pop guys go country when they can't make it in pop an...

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Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from F...

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By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and...

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The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people i...

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It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.

I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and...

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In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sp...

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They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn i...

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We need intelligence in this country. We need a certain toughness in this country, or we're going to...

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So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries a...

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Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with...

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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms econ...

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Summertime oh summertime pattern of life indelible the fade-proof lake the woods unshatterable ...

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Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the set...

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Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the ...

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Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history o...

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Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and s...

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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one ...

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Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of eve...

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Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sportin...

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in i...

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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is...

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The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in...

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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit f...

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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, ...

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The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more tha...

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A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is t...

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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

We all need Europe, not just those of us in Europe. And we Germans need Europe more than the others....

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City life - millions of people being lonesome together.

To say the least a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous co...

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Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for peopl...

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Hunter S. ThompsonKingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith.

To criticize one's country is to do it a service... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is...

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