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• Intellectual respectability required mental health, and it was becoming evident to me by then that "mental health" consisted of trusting everyone about everything as much as possible - and, for good measure, poking fun at anyone who didn't. Especially to be trusted were the mass media, whose owners and personnel were not to be regarded as minions of the Establishment because, as they themselves used to attest with confidence, there was no Establishment in the United States of America. Only foreigners and paranoids believed (otherwise).

  Kerry Thornley

  Fun, Media, America

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• A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Government, People, Accepted

  "Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts" collected and published by Cte. A. G. de Liancourt; edited by James Alexander Manning, 1848.

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• The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true.

  Joseph Addison

  Silence, Delight, Made

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.208

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• America is no longer the melting pot it used to be. It has now become a tossed salad of foreigners that arrive to our shores wanting to keep their culture and forcing our acceptance.

  Jay Severin

  Acceptance, America, Culture

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• When I first saw China, there were no automobiles. There were no supermarkets. There were no high-rise buildings. There were no consumer goods. There were no restaurants that were at least accessible that foreigners could see. It was a Stalinist society, and a very poor Stalinist society. So the economic system has totally changed, and the private sector in the economic system is now the dominant sector. It didn't exist at all as late as 1979.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Saws, Firsts, Building

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am an Indian. In fact, I feel like a foreigner when I go abroad.

  Sonia Gandhi

  Motivational, Facts, Feels

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• If a country is an attractive place for foreigners to invest their funds, then that country will have a relatively high exchange rate. If it's an unattractive place, it will have a relatively low exchange rate. Those are the fundamentals that determine the exchange rate in a floating exchange rate system.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Floating, Fundamentals

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• In the Afghan people, I found the most resilient, welcoming people who, for the first time in my career, never judged me over my right to tell this story - as a woman or a foreigner. A people who cherish their culture and history and the films that have captured that culture.

  Pietra Brettkelly

  Careers, People, Culture

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Way, Lost

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Language, British

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Heart, Rebel

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers.

  Han Suyin

  Art, Loss, Hands

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• People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

  Margaret Mead

  Dream, Fashion, Ambition

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• The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.

  Tony Benn

  Mother, Upset

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• If a trade deficit is determined solely by rates of savings and investment, then the U.S. trade deficit will be impervious to a get-tough trade policy. Slapping higher tariffs on imports will only deprive foreigners of the dollars they would have earned by selling in the U.S. market.

  Daniel T. Griswold

  Balance, Dollars, Saving

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• We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have lived neither here nor there, consequently anywhere, for we are aboriginal foreigners, transplanted from birth in our respective countries of origin.

  Enrique Lihn

  Country, Fossils, Phantoms

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• Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that same political life at less cost than their unjust and illegal exclusion will involve?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Justice, Diversity, Political

  W.E.B. Du Bois, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants to dance with. My heart beats for them. Maybe because I've always known that in some way I will forever be one of them.

  Peter Høeg

  Heart, Boys, Class

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good sense-a thing in footing indispensable: he danced without theatrical pretence, not like a ballet-master in the van of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.

  Lord Byron

  Angel, Nymphs, Ballet

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• I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I am grateful for the honors; but something within me rebelled at that word 'foreign'. I say this because when I have been in Canada, I have never heard a Canadian refer to an American as a 'foreigner'. He is just an 'American'. And, in the same way, in the United States, Canadians are not 'foreigners', they are 'Canadians'. That simple little distinction illustrates to me better than anything else the relationship between our two countries.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Grateful, Simple

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• The Arabs understandably did everything they could to protect their monopoly. Coffee beans were treated before being shipped to ensure they were sterile and could not be used to seed new coffee plants; foreigners were excluded from coffee-producing areas. First to break the Arab monopoly were the Dutch, who displaced the Portuguese as the dominant European nation in the East Indies during the seventeenth century, gaining control of the spice trade in the process and briefly becoming the world's leading commercial power.

  Tom Standage

  Coffee, East, Spices

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• Krakow the city of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become a foreigner in the place i had always called home

  Pam Jenoff

  Kings, Home, Cities

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• Oh sons of Arabs and the Arab Gulf, rebel against the foreigner...Take revenge for your dignity, holy places, security, interests and exalted values.

  Saddam Hussein

  Revenge, Son, Holy Places

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• And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.

  K. Sello Duiker

  Capes, Culture, Towns

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• Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Tired, Exercise, Yale

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