"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it."

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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

Nation, Country, Dignity, Importance, Office

"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

Nation, Country, Democrats, Republican, Republicans

"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

Nation, Nations, Right, United, Vote

"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

Nation, Rest, Will

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

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"No holidays, no country."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Nation, Nationality, Truth, Life, Power

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

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Nation, Country, End

"We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past."

Louise Slaughter, American Politician

Nation, Country, Energy, Extreme, Past

"The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research."

Louise Slaughter, American Politician

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"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it."

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"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'"

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"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."

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"San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"No holidays, no country."

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

"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."

"We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past."

"The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research."

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"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it."

"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'"

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."

"San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty."

"All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They."

"It's clever, but is it Art?"

"For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one."

"Heaven grant us patience with a man in love."

"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy."

"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."