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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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I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country.

He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from...

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Arnold had never given much thought to whether or not he loved America—but now it seemed pretty obvi...

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It is of great importance to our country generally, and especially to our navigating and whaling int...

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In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city everyone does not - only those yo...

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Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. A...

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The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from runn...

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Dad was always that way: who's the candidate that's best for this country? We can debate theology la...

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Manhattan's probably one of the bluest parts in the country, and Indiana's definitely one of the red...

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You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contriv...

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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.