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"The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent."
Gary Miller
"The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent."
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"The king must die so that the country can live."
Maximilien Robespierre
"The king must die so that the country can live."
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"True, other countries are helping us. Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources."
Eduard Shevardnadze
"True, other countries are helping us. Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources."
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"I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised."
Walter Salles
"I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised."
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"There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting."
Wangari Maathai
"There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting."
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"The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South."
Omar Bongo
"The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South."
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"Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob."
Ida B. Wells
"Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob."
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"When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country."
Bashar al-Assad
"When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country."
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"Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries."
Ernest Mandel
"Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries."
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"But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world."
Christiane Amanpour
"But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world."
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"A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia."
Phillip Noyce
"A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia."
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"While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known."
Harold Pinter
"While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known."
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"And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?"
Samuel P. Huntington
"And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?"
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"If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France."
Robert Altman
"If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France."
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"I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself."
Sitting Bull
"I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself."
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"It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be."
Hjalmar Branting
"It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be."
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"We are a small nation, but strong."
Moshe Dayan
"We are a small nation, but strong."
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"Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still."
Charles Churchill
"Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still."
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"Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively."
Zbigniew Brzezinski
"Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively."
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"Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country."
Bao Dai
"Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country."
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"I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them."
Curtis Lemay
"I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them."
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"There will be a lot of competitive and strong companies coming here and even though Kosovo is a small country that undoubtedly has a lot to offer to global trade; one of our main interests is to expose it to the world market."
Ibrahim Rugova
"There will be a lot of competitive and strong companies coming here and even though Kosovo is a small country that undoubtedly has a lot to offer to global trade; one of our main interests is to expose it to the world market."
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"Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market."
Gary Miller
"Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market."
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"I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries."
Uwe Boll
"I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries."
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"Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free."
Charles de Montesquieu
"Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free."
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"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind."
William Lloyd Garrison
"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind."
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"I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them."
David Attenborough
"I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them."
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"You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country."
Alan K. Simpson
"You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country."
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"Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class."
B. R. Ambedkar
"Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class."
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"I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty."
Rodrigo Rato
"I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty."
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"The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs."
Jane Byrne
"The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs."
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"It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one."
Jim Gerlach
"It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one."
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"I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally."
Ulysses S. Grant
"I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally."
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"I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations."
Henry Cabot Lodge
"I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations."
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"It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country."
Adam Smith
"It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country."
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"The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that."
Neil Gaiman
"The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that."
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"From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources."
Peter Pace
"From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources."
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"Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window."
Peter Drucker
"Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window."
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"Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot."
Vladimir Lenin
"Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot."
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"Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship."
George Pataki
"Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship."
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"We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries."
Townsend Harris
"We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries."
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"There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States."
Ron Chernow
"There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States."
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"All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations."
Nong Duc Manh
"All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations."
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"I remain attached to my nation."
Lionel Jospin
"I remain attached to my nation."
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"Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe."
Iris Chang
"Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe."
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"Research in this country is going down."
Amar Bose
"Research in this country is going down."
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"Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems."
Alva Myrdal
"Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems."
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"Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?"
Corrine Brown
"Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?"
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"In the country of pain we are each alone."
May Sarton
"In the country of pain we are each alone."
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"I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world."
Robert Caro
"I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world."
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