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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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"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."
Want
"There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history."
History
"It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency."
Choice
"I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction."
Fiction
"Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present."
History
"I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years."
Family
"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past."
Past
"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
"Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country."
Nation
"I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one."
Life
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