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"A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay."

"Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all."

"One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties."

"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch."

"An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country."

"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks."
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"Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective."

"An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates."

"Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted."

"Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin."

"Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light."

"Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature."

"From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left."
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