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"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"

"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."

"I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too."

"A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries."

"The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame."

"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."

"I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness."
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"It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything."

"I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place."

"Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating."

"A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again."
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