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"If there is no love for others, love of country is just a slogan."
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"Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing."

"Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation."

"The real propaganda is what-if we are genuinely a living member of a nation-we tell ourselves because we have hope, hope being a symbol of a nation's instinct of self-preservation. To remain blind to the unjustness of the cause of the individual "Germany," to recognise at every moment the justness of the cause of the individual "France," the surest way was not for a German to be without judgement, or for a Frenchman to possess it, it was, both for the one and for the other, to be possessed of patriotism."

"But that's part of what makes America wonderful, is we always had this nagging dissatisfaction that spurs us on. That's how we ended up going west, that's how we--"I'm tired of all these people back east; if I go west, there's going to be my own land and I'm not going to have to put up with this nonsense, and I'm going to start my own thing, and I've got my homestead. ...It is true, though, that that restlessness and that dissatisfaction which has helped us go to the moon and create the Internet and build the Transcontinental Railroad and build our land-grant colleges, that those things, born of dissatisfaction, we can very rapidly then take for granted and not tend to and not defend, and not understand how precious these things are."

"Real patriotism embraces the wholly immovable belief that without freedom, the essence of the human soul and the life-breath of the human spirit is doomed to perish for lack of space and absence of light."

"The average American is nothing if not patriotic."

"With a good conscience our only sure reward with history the final judge of our deeds let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own."

"Every part of Nigeria is blessed."
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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

"Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity."

"For the human experience, life in the natural world seems to require the application of meaning, in order to evoke purpose."

"Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth."

"Consider intentions carefully. Karma gives a damn about ego, awards allegiance to none, and its justice is truly blind."

"External beauty is certainly cool to admire, but when worshipped - it eclipses internal shine."

"Apply expectations appropriately. Do not assume [all] adults are as grown up and mature as they should be, or appear to be."
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