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Akihito

"The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation."

Akihito, Japanese Statesman
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"The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation."

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"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President
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"So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it."

Chris Hadfield, Canadian Astronaut
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"And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian."

Chris Hadfield, Canadian Astronaut
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"The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in."

Howard Dean, American Politician
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"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

William Hazlitt, English Critic
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"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."

Dan Quayle, American Vice President
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"I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so."

Leroy Chiao, American Astronaut
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"And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year."

Marek Belka, Polish Economist
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"When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly."

Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Director
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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

Gertrude Stein, American Author
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