Quotes with country-town

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  • George Borrow Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • Lily Tomlin Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Lily Tomlin Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Bob Woodward Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Charles de Gaulle No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Billy Dee Williams No matter where I go, in this country or outside of this country, there are young people, and I'm always surprised that young people know about me and Colt 45.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Robert Wilson No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town.
    Robert Wilson
    American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Beth Broderick Nobody wants to sit where I'm sitting and say, 'Hey, this is the reality. I did two movies, six guest-star spots and I starred in a one-woman show, and I'm not making any money. I'm on TV every day in every country in the world, and I don't make any money.'
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Barbara Demick North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Barbara Demick North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • William Cobbett Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Brooks Atkinson Nothing wholly admirable ever happens in this country except the migration of birds.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Anita Diamant November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Blanche Lincoln Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Byron Dorgan Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Bill Gross Obama/Romney, Romney/Obama - the most important election of our lifetime? Fact is they're all the same - bought and paid for with the same money. Ours is a country of the SuperPAC, by the SuperPAC, and for the SuperPAC.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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