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"Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly."


"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."


"Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you."


"I mean, y'know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing."


"I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real."


"We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries."


"So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country."


"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."


"Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country."


"What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions."


"You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell."



"During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries."


"As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference."


"This country consumes more pornography than any other country in the world."


"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!"


"Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country."


"A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries."


"The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country."


"If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."


"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."


"Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty."


"We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us."


"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."


"But this country is a great country and will always rebound."



"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."


"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."


"I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present."


"There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers."


"The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything."


"Whether it s the country or city, I never liked the bad guy."


"Singing is not indulged in by Rotary clubs of some countries and all clubs are given full privilege to do as they please about including it in their programs."


"For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region."


"Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world."
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