Quotes with country

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  • Oscar Wilde Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no rĂ©gime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Angela Merkel For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson For me, it's just about keeping the standards up. We're a small country, so we have to punch above our weight. I'm not a great man for doing something just because it's Irish, and you never know what's going to work. But as long as we keep the standards up, people will continue to invest in films. It's as simple as that.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Bill Buford For reasons I didn't understand, I felt I needed to learn how to cook the food of France and knew that I was going to have to get over to the country: to Paris, I'd always assumed.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Bob Beauprez For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Mark Twain France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Billy Wilder France is a country where the money falls apart in your hands and you can't tear the toilet paper.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Charles Sumner From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned.
    Charles Sumner
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1811 - 1874)
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  • Carolyn Murphy Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Adrian Cronauer Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • Horace Greeley Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
    Horace Greeley
    American editor (1811 - 1872)
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  • Luis Bunuel God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Benjamin Franklin God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Bob Riley God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • William Cowper God made the country and man made the town.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Bill Flores Going forward, we must continue the fight to change the direction of our country.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Alfred de Musset Great artists have no country.
    Alfred de Musset
    French writer (1810 - 1857)
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