"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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"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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"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 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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"Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?"

Alfred de Vigny, French Poet

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"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country."

Meg Whitman, American Businessman

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"Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country."

Penelope Lively, English Author

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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state."

Bronislaw Geremek, Polish Historian

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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately."

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

"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 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."

"Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?"

"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

"One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country."

"Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country."

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

"It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state."

"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

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"A man is only as good as what he loves."

"With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence."

"Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately."

"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."

"Conquered people tend to be witty."

"Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love."