"I am not worried about the country. I'm just worried about anything that gums up the potential of the country. And right now, it's pretty gummed up."
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"We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form."
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"I think the rest of the country should be paying less, the 95 percent that [Barack] Obama talks about or maybe even a little higher than that."
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"The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information."
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"It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question."
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"There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back."
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"People always think the bread of another country is better than their own."
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"Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time."
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"In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities."
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"Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting."
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"I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see."
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"That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image."
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"The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use."
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"The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its dilatory length but one meaning in the eyes of history. It freed the country from the social plague which until then had made political development impossible in the United States. More and more, as the years pass, does the meaning stand forth as the sole meaning."
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"The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands."
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"The US did not have any big supply of good generals in Civil War, and some it did have went with the rebels. If Robert E.Lee had stayed with his country the story would have been different."
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"The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed inherit the earth, because they're healthier."
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"I don't go into hysterics or anything, but I look around for something to smash it with. I used to live out in the country when I first moved here, and there were a lot of centipedes in the house, and I set out to kill them all. A program of genocide. I'd wake up in the middle of the night, and I'd know there's a centipede in this room. And there always was. And I couldn't go to sleep until I killed it."
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"I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend."
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"May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode! But darkness and the gloomy shade of death Environ you till mischief and despair Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves."
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