"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between."

Nation, Country, End, Lies, Mystery

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"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between."

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"Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that."

Ralph Boston, American Athlete

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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."

Harry S. Truman, American President

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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

George Eliot, British Author

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"America; a country that was discovered is now a discovery and making discoveries! America is America not because of the name America, but because of the great hands and minds who made the name America be America!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."

Saul Bellow, American Novelist

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"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"No holidays, no country."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country."

John T. Flynn, American Critic

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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically."

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"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."

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"Success produces success, just as money produces money."

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"I don't want to be a passenger in my own life."

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"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."

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"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between."

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