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"I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness."
Steve Martin
"I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness."
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"Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share."
Edward Burnett Tylor
"Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share."
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"In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries."
Burt Rutan
"In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries."
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"The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country."
Alexandra Paul
"The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country."
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"I certainly want to get back to the U.S. to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida."
Mick Taylor
"I certainly want to get back to the U.S. to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida."
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"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."
Norman Lear
"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."
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"A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country."
Wendell Willkie
"A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country."
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"I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn."
Jimmy Buffett
"I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn."
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"Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty."
Ernst Toller
"Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty."
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"Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce."
Joseph Hume
"Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce."
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"Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country."
Kevin Eubanks
"Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country."
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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."
Johann Kaspar Lavater
"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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"California is going to be quite good for the Democrats. But the rest of the country is a draw."
Stuart Rothenberg
"California is going to be quite good for the Democrats. But the rest of the country is a draw."
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"This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare."
James Forrestal
"This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare."
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"I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country."
Rick Allen
"I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country."
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"The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced."
Robert Fortune
"The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced."
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"The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid."
Paul Hoffman
"The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid."
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"When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition."
Brian Eno
"When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition."
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"So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country."
Cy Coleman
"So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country."
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"I have started that which the country will not willingly let die."
Cleveland Abbe
"I have started that which the country will not willingly let die."
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"You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone."
Ninette de Valois
"You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone."
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"My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country."
Wolfman Jack
"My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country."
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"There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves."
Mike Gordon
"There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves."
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"Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country."
Bainbridge Colby
"Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country."
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"For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries."
Norman Borlaug
"For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries."
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"In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment."
George Ade
"In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment."
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"I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember."
Alex Chilton
"I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember."
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"But this country is a great country and will always rebound."
Jack Scalia
"But this country is a great country and will always rebound."
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"I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead."
Frank Black
"I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead."
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"In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country."
James Cronin
"In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country."
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"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."
James Young
"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."
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"Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear."
Menachem Begin
"Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear."
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"Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that."
Daniel Berrigan
"Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that."
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"Israel is one of the easiest places to play ball. When I say easy I am referring to the easy lifestyle an athlete has while in Israel. It's very easy to get around the country, because it's so small."
Michael Kennedy
"Israel is one of the easiest places to play ball. When I say easy I am referring to the easy lifestyle an athlete has while in Israel. It's very easy to get around the country, because it's so small."
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"I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven."
Laurel Lee
"I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven."
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"We have a country that is in a very delicate situation."
Ezer Weizman
"We have a country that is in a very delicate situation."
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"Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed."
Joseph Hume
"Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed."
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"'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country."
Dennis Hopper
"'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country."
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"A wise traveler never depreciates their own country."
Carlo Goldoni
"A wise traveler never depreciates their own country."
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"I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred."
John Mellencamp
"I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred."
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"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."
Li Peng
"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."
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"High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country."
Dennis C. Blair
"High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country."
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"No one country has a team that hold a monopoly on the league like Maccabi does in Israel."
Michael Kennedy
"No one country has a team that hold a monopoly on the league like Maccabi does in Israel."
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"Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?"
Gloria Trevi
"Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?"
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"Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country."
Steven Wright
"Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country."
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"A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country."
Howard Dietz
"A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country."
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"We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!"
Alan Vega
"We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!"
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"No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount."
Frederick Scott Oliver
"No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount."
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"I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear."
Steven Chu
"I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear."
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"Europe is a collection of free countries."
Douglas Feith
"Europe is a collection of free countries."
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