"You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them."
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"Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt."
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"France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart."
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"The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country."
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"Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced."
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"Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life."
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"I'd like to be honest to my time, and I lived from 1946, and I want to understand why our country, which I love so much, and was a great country when I was young, it seemed, became this monster vampire on the face of humanity- a vampire squid, to quote Matt Taibbi, sucking out the juices of all mankind. Why? It's a basic question."
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"War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade."
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"I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS."
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"Africa north of the Sahara, from a zoological point of view, is now, and has been since early Tertiary times, a part of Europe. This is true both of animals and of the races of man."
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"Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses."
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"I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones."
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"A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height."
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"When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country."
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"Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few."
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"I still love church. My favorite church service is T.D. Jakes at the Potter's House. I don't think there is a better preacher in the country. His ability to interpret scripture is like no other."
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"I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries."
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"To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents."
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"The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country."
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"God...my self in the Bronx always says that God has a funny sense of humor. ..He has a way of treating things, he deals with each individual soul delicately, tenderly, compassionately but he deals with groups of people [country] according to certain laws and he always observes those laws and that means the innocent are punished with the evil."
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