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"There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know."
"I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation."
"We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices."
"It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one."
"Our country is the world - our countrymen are all mankind."
"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind."
"I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country."
"Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship."
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"For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind."
"The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect."
"There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery."
"In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education."
"In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature."
"As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand."
"A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions."
"A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely."
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