"I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?"

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"I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?"

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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."

Ralph Boston, American Athlete

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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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."

Harry S. Truman, American President

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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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"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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"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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"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"No holidays, no country."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country."

John T. Flynn, American Critic

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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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Explore more quotes by Jose Saramago

"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."

Exploration

"What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?"

Being

"The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975."

Work

"I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined."

Home

"Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?"

Land

"I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see."

People

"Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up."

People

"I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends."

Friendship

"In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays."

Freedom

"Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer."

Time