Country Quotes - Page 31

• How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress, Spread

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

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• Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is. The past, present and future is all encompassed by not only the physical structure of the building but also the radio show.

  Dierks Bentley

  Past, Radio, Lighthouse

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• Why can I not fight for my country too?

  Deborah Sampson

  Fighting, Revolution, American Revolution

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• The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country.

  Edward Kennedy

  Conservative, Financial, Republican

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture.

  Margaret Thatcher

  People, Different, Culture

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doing, don't just sit there. Vote them out.

  Ralph Nader

  Powerful, Dignity, Vote

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• I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.

  Dennis Miller

  Party, Dignity, Communist

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• There may be a time when a country will have to wake up from a vision of happiness, when they have to realize that theirs is not the perfect idea, that there are many aspects that do not correspond to the reality of what is there, the real need and aspirations of the people.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Real, Government

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2000). “Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers”, p.76, Penguin

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• In countries around the world, waistlines are expanding so rapidly that health experts recently coined a term for the epidemic: globesity.

  Laurie Cunningham

  Epidemics, Experts, World

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• From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.

  Steve Buyer

  Depression, Struggle, Age

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• Women need to see ourselves as individuals capable of creating change. That is what political and economic power is all about: having a voice, being able to shape the future. Women's absence from decision-making positions has deprived the country of a necessary perspective.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Voice, Creating, Perspective

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• The vineyard country, russet, reddish, carmine-brown in this season.
  A blue outline of hills above a fertile valley.
  It's warm as long as the sun does not set, in the shade cold returns.
  A strong sauna and then swimming in a pool surrounded by trees.
  Dark redwoods, transparent pale-leved birches.
  In their delicate network, a sliver of the moon.
  I describe this for I have learned to doubt philosophy
  And the visible world is all that remains.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Strong, Philosophy, Swimming

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• POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific-and without science we are as the snakes and toads.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Drinking, Science, Medicine

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2484, Delphi Classics

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• For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.

  Reginald Maudling

  Scotch, Awful, Sake

  Said on the aeroplane after visiting Northern Ireland for the first time,

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• I dream of starting a three-man country trio called the Chixie Dicks.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Dream, Humor

  "Zach Galifianakis Live at the Purple Onion". Documentary, Comedy, 2006.

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• We don't want two-tier health care in Canada - one tier for Quebec and another tier for the rest of the country.

  Gordon Campbell

  Two, Care, Want

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• We offer a new way for those people of Indian origin to make a difference in their country - and to make some money.

  Will Poole

  Journey, Differences, People

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• The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Political, Unions

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• It has never happened in history that a nation that has won a war has been held accountable for atrocities committed in preparing for and waging that war. We intend to make this one different. What took place was the use of technological material to destroy a defenseless country. From 125,000 to 300,000 people were killed... We recognize our role in history is to bring the transgressors to justice.

  Ramsey Clark

  War, Atrocities Committed, People

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• What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.

  Albert Camus

  Travel, Old Habits, Giving

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• Was there ever a sillier thing before in the world than what I saw in Malabar country? The poor Pariah is not allowed to pass through the same street as the high-caste man, but if he changes his name to a hodge-podge English name, it is all right; or to a Mohammedan name, it is all right.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Names, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1204, Manonmani Publishers

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• Do not give the terrorists, the enemy combatants, the people who blow up folks at weddings, who fly airplanes into the twin towers, the ability to sue our own troops all over the country for any and everything.

  Lindsey Graham

  Airplane, Blow, People

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• This is important, to represent our country. We've also got to be ready for the Minnesota Twins.

  Carlos Silva

  Important, Minnesota, Twins

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• We shot that in Morocco, and got out of the country at the beginning of July - and two months later came the attack on Twin Towers. The movie was then released in December, so that kind of atmosphere is not something that was unfamiliar to me.

  Eric Bana

  July, Two, Atmosphere

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• It's a walk of remembrance, a commemorative event for the victims of the twin towers, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania, ... We must reflect on the tragedy of that day and the events that have unfolded from it, and recommit to the ideals of freedom that epitomize our country and our vow to never forget.

  Greg Hicks

  Remembrance, Tragedy, Events

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