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

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"There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states."

Phyllis Schlafly, American Activist

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"We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense."

Neil Cavuto, American Journalist

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"Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country's well-being."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"America; a country that was discovered is now a discovery and making discoveries! America is America not because of the name America, but because of the great hands and minds who made the name America be America!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"The desired modernization and rationalisation of Turkey will never be realised till the day the Modern Turks of AtatA1?4rk come to power because only modern and rational minds can create a modern and a rational country!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"As a South African I honestly cannot understand how people can't see South Africa as a unique nation, untied by ties of history, bonds of suffering, victory, struggles, hope - and in more ways than I ever before thought possible - blood."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."

Voltaire, French Writer

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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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"No holidays, no country."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old."

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

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"Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs."

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"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?""

Art

"If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son."

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"If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine."

Family

"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers."

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

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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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"A people always ends by resembling its shadow."

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