"A whole nation cannot rise above itself."

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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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"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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"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."

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

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

Lord Robertson, Scottish Diplomat

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"In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really."

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"In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned."

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"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it."

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"The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people."

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"Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot."

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"Sixty years is too brief a compass for man's imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can never satisfy his heart."

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"There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin."

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"The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality."

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"In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."

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