"Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you."

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"Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you."

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"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

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"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?"

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"Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner."

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"Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon."

Archibald Cox, American Public Servant

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"Those who own the country ought to govern it."

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"Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear."

Menachem Begin, Israeli Statesman

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"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."

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"I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives."

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"There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay."

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"I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing."

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"Now that I'm gettin' old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin' but quit playin' so hard."

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"Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far."

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"You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?"

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"There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money."

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"I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do."

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"Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues."

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"If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket."

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"I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory."

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"I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing."

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