"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."

Nation, Nations

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"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."

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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"A whole nation cannot rise above itself."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

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"There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die."

Encouragement

"Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all."

Film

"I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old."

Old

"It's a mistake to confuse pity with love."

Love

"You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas."

Heart

"You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot."

Society

"If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed."

Thought

"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."

Music

"A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper."

Freedom

"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."

Illusion