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"It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot."
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"There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states."
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"We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense."
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"Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country's well-being."
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"A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter."
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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!"
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"The desired modernization and rationalisation of Turkey will never be realised till the day the Modern Turks of AtatA1?4rk come to power because only modern and rational minds can create a modern and a rational country!"
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"As a South African I honestly cannot understand how people can't see South Africa as a unique nation, untied by ties of history, bonds of suffering, victory, struggles, hope - and in more ways than I ever before thought possible - blood."
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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."
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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."
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"No holidays, no country."
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"For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey."
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"After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life."
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"For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language."
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"Who included me among the ranks of the human race?"
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"The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie."
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"Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language."
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"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."
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"Bad literature is a form of treason."
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"Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair."
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