"Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'."

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"Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'."

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

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."

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"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

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

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

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

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"One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world."

Jay Rockefeller, American Politician

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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."

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"When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them."

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"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead."

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"Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them."

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"It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste."

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"Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases."

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"We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school."

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"Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic."

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