"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

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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."

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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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"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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Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Director

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"Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one."

Giraldus Cambrensis, Welsh Clergyman

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"I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country."

Margaret Anderson, American Editor

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Lord Robertson, Scottish Diplomat

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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."

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

"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."

"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

"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."

"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."

"When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly."

"Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one."

"I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country."

"And most countries are now reducing the number of conscripts and increasing the professionals that are available because they're available on short notice."

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"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."

"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

"Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning."

"Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors."

"You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear."

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