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Edna O'Brien

"Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire."

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"Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire."

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"A wise traveler never despises his own 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."

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"There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States."

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"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."

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"If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country."

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"President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how."

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