"New York, the nation's thyroid gland."

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"Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that."

Ralph Boston, American Athlete

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."

Harry S. Truman, American President

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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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"America; a country that was discovered is now a discovery and making discoveries! America is America not because of the name America, but because of the great hands and minds who made the name America be America!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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

Saul Bellow, American Novelist

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"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"No holidays, no country."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country."

John T. Flynn, American Critic

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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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"High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead."

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"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs."

Humor

"I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter."

Mind

"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water."

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"We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up."

Kids

"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim."

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"Act like you expect to get into the end zone."

Act

"Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it."

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"The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people."

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"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."

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