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

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

George Eliot, British Author

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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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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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"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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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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"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down."

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"Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity."

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"Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation."

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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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