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• I just want to say we support the troops and we love every one of them. Even if they...I know a lot of my friends that are in the military that they don't agree with...Some of them are total, total liberals or this or that, whatever they are and I just want to say that we love all the troops. We don't care what they believe in, they're defending our country and we love them for that. And they're the biggest bad assses...in the world and we just want to thank you. We hope they enjoy the music and we'll keep pumping it out and just keep staying bad asses!

  M. Shadows

  Military, Believe, Bad Ass

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• Man has gone to the moon but he does not yet know how to make a flame tree or a bird song. Let us keep our dear countries free from irreversible mistakes which would lead us in the future to long for those same birds and trees.

  Felix Houphouet-Boigny

  Song, Mistake, Moon

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• Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Home, Economy, Indifferent

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• Providing reserves and exchanges for the whole world is too much for one country and one currency to bear.

  Henry H. Fowler

  World, Too Much, Bears

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• I have chosen to fight against corruption in this country, though I have been advised not to because we are drawing closer to this year’s Tripartite Elections. I know I am fighting against people who are smarter, wealthier and advanced.

  Joyce Banda

  Fighting, Years, Drawing

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• The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston.

  Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

  Wine, Boston, People

  Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (2001). “Two Years Before the Mast”, p.85, Digital Scanning Inc

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• My agency in promoting the passage of the National Bank Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly, which affects every interest in the country. It should be repealed, but before that can be accomplished, the people will be arrayed on one side and the banks on the other, in a contest such as we have never before seen in this country.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Mistake, Agency, People

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• I think really the whole problem with racism and its continuing legacy in this country is that we simply love it. Who would we be without the 'struggle?'

  Kara Walker

  Struggle, Thinking, Racism

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• We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country under difficult circumstances. We are profoundly grateful to our Commander-in-Chief and to our nation for this day. God bless America.

  Jeremiah Denton

  Grateful, Opportunity, America

  National POW/MIA Recognition Day speech, www.afoutreach.af.mil. 2003.

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• We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our fellow-countrymen, to our neighbors, to our friends, to our family, to our children.

  Michael Frayn

  Children, Men, Two

  "Copenhagen". Play by Michael Frayn, May 21, 1998.

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• Fifty-thousand were gathered (March,27th,1933) in and around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, Houston, and about seven other American cities. At each supportive rally, thousands huddled around loudspeakers waiting for the Garden event, which would be broadcast live via radio to 200 additional cities across the country. At least 1 million Jews were participating nationwide. Perhaps another million Americans of non-Jewish descent heritage stood with them.

  Edwin Black

  Garden, San Francisco, Squares

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• No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid

  Michelle Alexander

  Black, United States, Population

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.6, The New Press

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• How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?

  Robert Jensen

  Views, Political, Historical

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• In the twenty-five years that have passed since the ending of the World War when the people of this country emerged from generations of humiliation under foreign occupation, we have accomplished much to our credit, overcome many difficulties and changed the course of our history.

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  War, Years, People

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• It’s amazing how quickly something gets written. Now, when it comes, it can be on a bus, or in a store. I’ve stopped in Macy’s and written on a dry-goods counter and then suddenly had a whole piece of writing for myself that was accomplished, where earlier in my life I felt I had to spend a week in a house somewhere in the country in order to get that. Conditions change.

  William Goyen

  Writing, Order, House

  William Goyen, Reginald Gibbons (2007). “Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews”, p.76, University of Texas Press

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• I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Needs, Vietnam, Today

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• I was here, and I loaded a shotgun on Independence Day, but I didn't kill anybody. I didn't drone any children. I didn't steal any children's future. I didn't sell this country into debt. I didn't do any of the crimes that the man two blocks over at the White House is responsible for.

  Adam Kokesh

  Children, Block, Men

  "Pro-gun activist Adam Kokesh arrested after posting YouTube video". www.rt.com. July 10, 2013.

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• Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Important, Composer, Our Country

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• And you must tell the child the legends I told you - as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who live forever in the hearts of the people.

  Betty Smith

  Mother, Children, Heart

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• Trance had become a dirty word. Thanks to Ian Van Dahl, Lasgo, Flip 'N' Fill and DJ Sammy, a generation of kids has grown up thinking trance is the shittiest music since country and western.

  Paul van Dyk

  Dirty, Kids, Thinking

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• The Pentagon's lost entire countries.

  Jack O'Neill

  Lost, Pentagon

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• I am grateful that my one talent, flying, was useful to my country.

  Cornelia Fort

  Grateful, Flying, Talent

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• We should be leading, and we’re not. We need to get serious about broadband, we need to get serious about competition, we need to get serious about our country.

  Michael Copps

  Competition, Serious, Needs

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• Everyone should be proud of who they are and where they come from because America is a big melting pot of diverse ethnicities. It's great to be part of this wonderful country.

  Rima Fakih

  Ethnicity, America, Melting

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• Unlike stocks, where in our country, you go to sleep, everyone tells you everything is wonderful, you wake up and everything is gone.

  Michael Franzese

  Sleep, Wake Up, Gone

  "EX-MOB BOSS WARNS: There's A Stock Market Bubble And It's Going To Burst" by Tyler Durden and Zero Hedge, www.businessinsider.com. August 24, 2014.

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