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Walt Whitman

"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."

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"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."

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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."

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"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

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"The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs."

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"The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority."

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

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"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."

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"President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how."

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"Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win."

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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

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"When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back."

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"I exist as I am that is enough If no other in the world be aware I sit content And if each and all be aware I sit content."
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"Songs of myselfI am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into new tongue. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,.."
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"I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."
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