"The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail."

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"The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail."

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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

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"Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?"

Alfred de Vigny, French Poet

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"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country."

Meg Whitman, American Businessman

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"Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country."

Penelope Lively, English Author

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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody."

George Steinbrenner, American Businessman

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"Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything."

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