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Francois Fenelon

"A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect."

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"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."

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"I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead."

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"I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!"

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"I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike."

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"My first occupation was to map the country."

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"It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will."

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"This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime."

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"New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human."

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"There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing."

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Amber Hurdle

"Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce."

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"All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation."
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