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  • Carl Sagan In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • John F. Kennedy In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Boris Spassky In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • William Tecumseh Sherman In our Country one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
    William Tecumseh Sherman
    American soldier, businessman, educator and author (1820 - 1891)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Bruno Schulz In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
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  • Adam Mickiewicz In spring's own country, where the gardens blow,
    You faded, tender rose! For hours now past,
    Like butterflies departing, on you're cast
    The worms of memories to work you woe.
    Crimean Sonnets The Grave of the Countess Potocki
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  • Bobby Scott In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Aldous Huxley In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ben Shahn In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.
    The Photographs of Ben Shahn
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Toni Morrison In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Voltaire In this country it's a good thing to kill an admiral now and then to encourage the others.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Billie Holiday In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Bill Moyers In those days, affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.
    Help, speech to the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, 3 March 2007, Moyers on Democracy
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Barney Frank Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Baba Kalyani India has the capability to create a fairly extensive defence manufacturing capability in many areas, and as a country and as an industry, we have matured in terms of technology and capability to make this happen.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Anita Desai India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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