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"Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries."

"Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers."

"There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country."

"I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed."

"This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars."

"Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is."

"Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice."

"There's a clear example of resolve in this country to fight back."

"Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest."
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"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain."

"It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets."

"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea."

"The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better."

"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."

"Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique."
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