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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)

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.