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

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"Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that."

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

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"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."

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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!"

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"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."

Saul Bellow, American Novelist

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William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety."

David Lavender, American Historian

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"Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election."

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"Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established."

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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."

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"Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that."

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

"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."

"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."

"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!"

"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."

"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

"At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety."

"Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election."

"If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed."

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"Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established."

"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."

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

"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!'"

"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

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