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"This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven."
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"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."
"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"
"Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country."
"Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty."
"We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it."
"What's bad for the country is always good for The Nation."
"To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country."
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"My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring."
"In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone."
"The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder."
"In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely."
"I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them."
"Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom."
"Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book."
"I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters."
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