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"I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me."
"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?"
"I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere."
"Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions."
"It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do."
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"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."
"To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy."
"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there."
"In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws."
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