"I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people."

People, Opportunity, Country, Talking

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"I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people."

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"Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control."

Control, Energy, Europe, Weapons

"There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea."

Time, Idea, Progress, Confusion

"The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia."

Liberty,

"I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people."

People, Opportunity, Country, Talking

"It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them."

Society, Vision, Cure, Ideology

"Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls."

Attention, World

"It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World."

Free, Rhetoric, Talk, World

"Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians."

Canada, World

"The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved."

Divided, Today, World

"There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa."

Regimes, America, Dictators, Military

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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