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"How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal."
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"The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself."
Politics

"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal."
Society

"Ideas are fatal to caste."
Creativity

"No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour."
Man

"We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand."
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"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."
Love

"Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety."
Religion

"England has always been disinclined to accept human nature."
Nature

"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
Books

"People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness."
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"How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal."
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"America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton."
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"In the United States, securities markets are much more developed than they are in Europe."
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"I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar."
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"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here."
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"Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable."
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"Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea."
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"On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor."
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"It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines."
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"Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency."
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