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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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"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."
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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."
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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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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
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"No holidays, no country."
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"I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone."
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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."
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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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"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."
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"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible."
Hope
"Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms."
Life
"Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have."
Truth
"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."
Process
"Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought."
Thought
"Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting."
Art
"Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk."
Woman
"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends."
Friendship
"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do."
Art
"The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect."
Emotional
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