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James A. Baldwin

"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."

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"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."

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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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"As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells."

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"Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?"

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"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

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"One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country."

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"Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country."

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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

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"It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state."

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"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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"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."
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"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."
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"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."
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"There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention."
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"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."
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