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"I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me."

"Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is."

"Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?"
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"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."

"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."

"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."

"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."

"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."

"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions."

"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
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