"I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country."

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"I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country."

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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

Nation, Country, Dignity, Importance, Office

"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

Nation, Country, Democrats, Republican, Republicans

"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

Nation, Nations, Right, United, Vote

"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

Nation, Rest, Will

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

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Nation, Nations, Right

"No holidays, no country."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Nation, Nationality, Truth, Life, Power

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

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Nation, Country, Paris

"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Nation, Country, End

"We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past."

Louise Slaughter, American Politician

Nation, Country, Energy, Extreme, Past

"The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research."

Louise Slaughter, American Politician

Nation, Countries, Research, Scientists, World

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"Self-preservation is the first responsibility."

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"I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration."

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"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person."

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"I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten."

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"Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too."

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

"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."

"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

"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."

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

"No holidays, no country."

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

"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."

"We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past."

"The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research."

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"Self-preservation is the first responsibility."

"I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration."

"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person."

"I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten."

"It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane."

"My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years."

"I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country."

"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."

"Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too."