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"I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker."
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"When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms."
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"It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs."
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"No holidays, no country."
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"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."
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"I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view."
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"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."
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"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
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"There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access."
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"For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood."
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"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."
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"Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best."
Reading
"What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us."
Luck
"Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it."
People
"Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures."
Nation
"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity."
Society
"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."
Movies
"Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt."
Doubt
"The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater."
Art
"The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring."
Love
"Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons."
Animals
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