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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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"Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe."
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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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"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."
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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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Explore more quotes by Penelope Lively

"Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are."
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"You learn a lot, writing fiction."
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"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."
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"We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from."
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"I rather like getting away from fiction."
Fiction

"I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children."
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"It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency."
Choice

"I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement."
History

"I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for."
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"I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation."
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