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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
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"The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs."

"The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority."

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

"The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known."

"There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself."

"What this country needs is more unemployed politicians."

"Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries."

"I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations."

"A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself."
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"Hatred comes from the heart contempt from the head and neither feeling is quite within our control."

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

"How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?"

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

"Men are like children, in that, if you spoil them, they become naughty. Therefore it is well not to be too indulgent or charitable with anyone. You may take it as a general rule that you will not lose a friend by refusing him a loan, but that you are very likely to do so by granting it; and, for similar reasons, you will not readily alienate people by being somewhat proud and careless in your behavior; but if you are very kind and complaisant towards them, you will often make them arrogant and intolerable, and so a breach will ensue."

"All striving comes from lack, from a dissatisfaction with one's condition, and is thus suffering as long as it is not satisfied; but no satisfaction is lasting; instead, it is only the beginning of a new striving. We see striving everywhere inhibited in many ways, struggling everywhere; and thus always suffering; there is no final goal of striving, and therefore no bounds or end to suffering."

"For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it."
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