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• I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.

  Mark Twain

  Glasses, Hypocrisy, Giving

  R. Kent Rasmussen, Mark Twain (2013). “Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers”, p.178, Univ of California Press

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• I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.

  Alexei Sayle

  Weather, Spain, Influence

  "Alexei Sayle's Granada". Interview with York Membery, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 11, 2010.

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• I met my wife in South Dakota.

  George McGovern

  Wife, South Dakota, Mets

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• It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Country, Thinking, Japan

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• I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'

  Al Gore

  Men, Boys, Racist Jokes

  "Al Gore explains why he’s optimistic about stopping global warming". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Self

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• I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.

  Emmanuel Jal

  People, Knows, Sudan

  "China, hip-hop and the new Sudan". Interview with Peter Shadbolt, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2011.

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• Anywhere you want. Thailand, South Carolina, Brezil, Peru-- Oh, wait, no, I'm banned from Peru. I'd forgotten about that. It's a long story, but amusing if you want to hear it.

  Magnus

  Long, Waiting, South Carolina

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• I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.

  Tim Scott

  Country, Blessing, Years

  "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien", www.cnn.com. December 19, 2012.

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• Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.

  Jacob Zuma

  Capes, Towns, Problem

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• It's been a pleasure to bring my talents to south beach now on to Memphis.

  Paul Pierce

  Beach, Memphis, Talent

  Twitter post from Nov 12, 2010

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• Bangladesh is not India, Pakistan, South Africa or Australia.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Australia, India, Pakistan

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• I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

  Faith Prince

  Stories

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• John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.

  Mark Shields

  South Carolina, Mccain, Primaries

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• Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park,' but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Fans, Parks, Tire

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. September 12, 2003.

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• I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.

  Eric Lefkofsky

  New York, Technology, Thinking

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• I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley.

  Cheech Marin

  Valleys, Half, Grew Up

  "Back with a bong". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2004.

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• When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.

  Hugh Masekela

  Years, Trying, Music Education

  "Hugh Masekela: Songs of freedom". Interview with Tony Wende, www.cnn.com. April 2, 2009.

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• I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts.

  Hugh Masekela

  Uprising, Culture, Way

  "Hugh Masekela: 'I don't think I have the power to forgive'". Interview with David Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2012.

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• I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about the same incomes, who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral and psychological climate had so little in common that instead of going from Burlington Hom or South Kensington to Chelsea, one might have crossed an ocean.

  C.P. Snow

  Ocean, Moving, Science

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• Two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And colored Southerners had none to hear that which could reduce their anger.

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  Dream, Anger, Two

  Sarah Patton Boyle (2016). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition”, p.181, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Environmentalism is not an upper-income issue, it's not a white issue, it's not a black issue, it's not a South or a North or an East or a West issue. It's an issue that all of us have a stake in. And if I can do anything to make sure that not just my daughter but every child in America has green pastures to run in and clean air to breathe and clean water to swim in, then that is something I'm going to work my hardest to make happen.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Running, Children

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• I've been elected numerous times in South Carolina. If I'm on the ballot, I'm going to win South Carolina.

  Lindsey Graham

  Winning, South Carolina, Ballots

  "Sen. Graham on security of our nation's capital, 2016 plans; Sen. Sanders ready to challenge Hillary Clinton?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2015.

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• I've got the best job in the world being a senator from the United States, a senator from South Carolina in the United States Senate, representing South Carolina in the United States Senate is a dream job for me, but the world is literally falling apart. And we can't get anything done here at home. So that drives my thinking more than anything else.

  Lindsey Graham

  Dream, Jobs, Fall

  "What's at stake for US as Saudi-led airstrikes pound Yemen?". "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2015.

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• The Israelis are becoming increasingly like the white supremacist South Africans, viewing the Palestinians as a lower form of life, not hesitating to kill a great many of them and justifying this on the grounds that they are being the objects of terrorism, which is true.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  White, Becoming, Terrorism

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