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'Good luck, Mr President,' I said to him. 'As I told you when I named you, I know the country is going to be in good hands with you in the Oval Office.' |
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- Richard Nixon
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'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.' |
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- Voltaire
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'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry -- every man of every nation has done that -- 'tis the living up to it that's difficult. |
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- William Makepeace Thackeray
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. |
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- Margaret Mead
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. |
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- German proverbs
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A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful. |
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- Primo Levi
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A country losing touch with its own history is like an old man losing his glasses, a distressing sight, at once vulnerable, unsure, and easily disoriented. |
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- George Walden
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. |
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- Arthur Miller
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends. |
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- Charles De Gaulle
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A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. |
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- Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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