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"The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce."
Armstrong Williams
"The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce."
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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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"And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency."
Warren Rudman
"And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency."
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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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"The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does."
Helen Thomas
"The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does."
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"I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic."
Helen Suzman
"I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic."
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"Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter."
Andrew Card
"Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter."
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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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"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."
Charles Kuralt
"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."
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"When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team."
Bill Toomey
"When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team."
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"By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them."
David Ricardo
"By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them."
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"It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot."
Dick Durbin
"It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot."
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"We are a small nation, but strong."
Moshe Dayan
"We are a small nation, but strong."
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"Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country."
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
"Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country."
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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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"France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose."
Jean-Marie Le Pen
"France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose."
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"Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions."
Ulysses S. Grant
"Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions."
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"As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this."
George Mason
"As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this."
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"Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple."
John W. Dawson
"Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple."
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"Our country is the world - our countrymen are all mankind."
William Lloyd Garrison
"Our country is the world - our countrymen are all mankind."
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"It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race."
Oscar Robertson
"It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race."
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"Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment."
Bob Filner
"Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment."
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"A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted."
Thomas Malthus
"A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted."
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"I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands."
Alexis Arguello
"I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands."
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"I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there."
Mickey Spillane
"I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there."
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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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"Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen."
Willa Cather
"Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen."
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"It is perfectly obvious that no one nor any single country can save the world from the horrors of tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and winged influenza."
Richard Reeves
"It is perfectly obvious that no one nor any single country can save the world from the horrors of tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and winged influenza."
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"Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty."
Samuel Gompers
"Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty."
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"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."
Saul Bellow
"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."
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"Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world."
Ike Skelton
"Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world."
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"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England."
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England."
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"A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself."
Arthur Miller
"A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself."
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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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"The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa."
Lewis Tappan
"The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa."
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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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"The country is in an extraordinary ferment."
William Hamilton Maxwell
"The country is in an extraordinary ferment."
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"A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality."
Nicholas D. Kristof
"A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality."
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"In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world."
Federico Garcia Lorca
"In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world."
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"If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive."
Hamilton Jordan
"If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive."
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"If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized."
Jacques Chirac
"If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized."
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"We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world."
Henry Cabot Lodge
"We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world."
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"Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country."
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"Our country right or wrong."
Stephen Decatur
"Our country right or wrong."
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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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"This is a racist country."
Charles Evers
"This is a racist country."
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"Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries."
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
"Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries."
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"Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa."
Robert C. Solomon
"Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa."
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"The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger."
Andrew Jackson
"The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger."
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"New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well as all the Provisions their Families spend."
John Lawson
"New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well as all the Provisions their Families spend."
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