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• Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Virginia, Liberty

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• Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts of the great and good who now cluster around the banner of the country, there exists no purer spirit, no more heroic soul, than that of the illustrious man whose death I join you in lamenting.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Loss, Men

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• ... far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and online matches, there has been a mini-boom in chess interest among young people in many countries.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Player, Availability, People

  "King Ludd is still dead". www.koreatimes.co.kr. October 11, 2012.

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• Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass, a wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.

  Bram Stoker

  Dog, Taken, Animal

  Bram Stoker (2013). “Vampire Novels”, p.133, eBookIt.com

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• When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Animal, Turkeys

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• But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.

  Juice Newton

  Adults, Attention, Radio

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• My fellow believers, it is time to return to the Book. It is time to look to the one source that holds the answers for how our country should operate, the Bible.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Book, Return

  Tony Evans (2014). “One Nation Under God: His Rule Over Your Country”, p.96, Moody Publishers

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• The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Thinking, Law

  Jane Austen (2010). “Mansfield Park: With an Introduction, Contemporary Opinions, and Contemporary Criticism”, p.212, Ignatius Press

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• The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and pastures his horses it stood once, and will return. There will be a resurrection of the wild. Already it stands in wait at the pasture fences.

  Wendell Berry

  Horse, Past, Garden

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.93, Counterpoint Press

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• The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.

  W. H. Auden

  Tree, Soul, Culture

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• We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America.

  Helen Keller

  Real, Destiny, America

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• He was feeling totally lost, leaving his family and country for a place where he knew nobody and didn't even speak the language.

  Patrick Mouratoglou

  Leaving, Feelings, Feeling Lost

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• Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.

  Ben Mink

  Art, Moving, Divorce

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• My country is taking over in tennis

  Yevgeny Kafelnikov

  Tennis

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• I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

  Richard Shelby

  Believe, Order, Community

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• There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.

  Roy Barnes

  Stronger, Earth, Tradition

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• You know, the country is basically peaceful.

  Paul Bremer

  Love, Peace, Knows

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• And whatever our faith - whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country.

  John F. Kerry

  Character, Giving, Belief

  "We need to make America once again a beacon in the world", www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2004.

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• Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.

  Charles Churchill

  Rays, Genius, Spread

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.47

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• There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Reflection, Two, Patriotism

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.84, Westminster John Knox Press

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• A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Patriotism, Agents

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.423

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• You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Opportunity, People, Lectures

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• Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene ... to widows and orphans instead of wisely deciding to mulct the whole country.

  S. J. Perelman

  Widows And Orphans, Entrepreneur, Gone

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• The merchant has no country .

  Thomas Jefferson

  Southern, Merchants

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• Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

  Swami Vivekananda

  India, Movement, Language

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1849, Manonmani Publishers

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