"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."

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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."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

George Eliot, British Author

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"As a South African I honestly cannot understand how people can't see South Africa as a unique nation, untied by ties of history, bonds of suffering, victory, struggles, hope - and in more ways than I ever before thought possible - blood."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California."

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"All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac."

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"I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture."

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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."

"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

"As a South African I honestly cannot understand how people can't see South Africa as a unique nation, untied by ties of history, bonds of suffering, victory, struggles, hope - and in more ways than I ever before thought possible - blood."

"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."

"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."

"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

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"In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California."

"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned."

"She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand."

"A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out."

"Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps."

"In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries."

"When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice."

"All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac."

"I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture."

"What is art but a way of seeing?"