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"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."
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"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
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"When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back."
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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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"When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms."
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"It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs."
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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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"No holidays, no country."
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"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."
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"No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses."
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"I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswise across his character and disposition and general outlook."
Personality
"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."
Opinion
"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
Poetry
"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."
Politics
"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."
People
"Most of the big shore places were closed now. And there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of the ferryboat across the sound. And as the moon rose higher, the inessential houses began to melt away till gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes, A fresh green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams. For a transitory, enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent. Face to face, for the last time in history, with something commensurate to its capacity for wonder."
Reflection
"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
People
"Action is character."
Action
"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
Woman
"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
Thought
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