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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
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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."
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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."
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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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"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."
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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."
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"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."
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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
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"A wise traveler never despises his own country."
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"Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians."
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"Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea."
Age
"Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female."
Care
"I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership."
Reading
"There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted."
Time
"While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction."
Politics
"There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen."
People
"The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity."
War
"There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror."
Anger
"One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot."
Family
"You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch."
Philosophy
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