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Country Quotes
"Europe is a collection of free countries."
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"A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay."
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"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."
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"We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise."
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"There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes."
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"The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a more rapid pace than any other country has ever experienced."
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"To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country."
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"My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country."
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"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks."
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"I mean, y'know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing."
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"Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world."
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"We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it."
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"We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country."
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"This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies."
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"The internal conditions in Iran are worsening in all aspects. Poverty and unemployment are becoming more severe, despite the fact that Iran has turned into a developed and industrialized country."
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"Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents."
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"So I'm going to tell you, it's going to be a good year. There are good players all over this country, and it is our job as a scouting department to find them, draft them, sign them, develop them, and help us to continue to win championships. So it's going to be a good year."
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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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"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."
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"International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples."
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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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"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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"Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it."
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"We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below."
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"But this country is a great country and will always rebound."
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"Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country."
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"The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them."
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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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"To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere."
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"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch."
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"I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well."
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"There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible."
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