Quotes with country

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  • Aldo Leopold Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • Bill Dedman Relaxing at home in his 55th-floor condominium before a game, Sammy Sosa is the same as at the ball park: focused but funny, exuberant but reserved. He is in a strange country, conversing in two languages, but his every movement displays a combination of confidence and humility.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Al McGuire Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
    Al McGuire
    American basketball coach and broadcaster (1928 - 2001)
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  • George F. Will Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field...
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • John McCain Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Bob Simon Saddam, as most tyrants, was a total control freak. He wanted total control of his regime. Total control of the country. And to introduce a wild card like Al Qaeda in any sense was just something he would not do.
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  • Carl Levin Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Carl Forti Scott Brown is a superstar. Scott Brown won a race that nobody expected Republicans to even be competitive in, and he was able to do it at a time when nothing else going on, so he captured the attention of conservatives across the country.
    Carl Forti
    American Republican Party strategist (1972 - )
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  • Bob Menendez Secondly, security. Both the challenges we face in the world and the responsibilities that our country has in protecting our people, are major issues. We need to do more in the context of domestic security.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Stokely Carmichael Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Frank Moore Colby Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Caleb Cushing Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Abraham Cowley Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Bob Dylan So if you're travelin' in the north country fair,
    Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
    Remember me to one who lives there.
    She once was a true love of mine.
    The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Roger Sherman Baldwin So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
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  • Ben Shahn So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around the country in the areas in which we worked to see what it's all about, and I tell you that was a revelation to me.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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