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

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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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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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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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"As a South African I honestly cannot understand how people can't see South Africa as a unique nation, untied by ties of history, bonds of suffering, victory, struggles, hope - and in more ways than I ever before thought possible - blood."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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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 country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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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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"People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too."

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

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"Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump."

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"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."

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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."

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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."

"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

"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."

"As a South African I honestly cannot understand how people can't see South Africa as a unique nation, untied by ties of history, bonds of suffering, victory, struggles, hope - and in more ways than I ever before thought possible - blood."

"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."

"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

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

"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 country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

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

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

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

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."

"The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock."

"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it."

"People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too."

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

"Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump."

"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."

"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."