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• If we were building our navy, rather than reducing our navy to pre-World War I levels, China would not be thinking about increasing its navy to take over the South China Sea.

  Rudy Giuliani

  War, Thinking, Sea

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2015.

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• I lived in Alabama and Georgia, and the people in the south are wonderful. It's God, faith, family, country.

  Sean Hannity

  Country, People, Alabama

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2015.

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• Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you think of New York or LA. It has some Southern romanticism to it, but also a Northern progressivism, this weird urban island in the middle of the state of Kentucky that has always provided a fertile, often dark, bed. For us, Louisville and the surrounding areas are the center of massive creativity and massive weirdness. The place has its flaws: You move away, but you’re always going to come back.

  Jim James

  New York, Moving, Creativity

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• The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.

  John Galsworthy

  Book, Men, Squares

  John Galsworthy (2015). “The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels”, p.1149, e-artnow

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• The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Food, Sea

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• Opera Australia has a mix - it produces new work, it produces from the classical repertoire and, particularly in more recent years, it's done those blockbuster musicals which are very lucrative for it and reach an audience that classic opera or a new opera perhaps wouldn't reach, like South Pacific for example.

  George Brandis

  Years, Australia, Example

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.

  Paul Theroux

  Wise, Country, America

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.295, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.

  Benito Mussolini

  Lying, East, Asia

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• It is charming the way everyone in the South says, 'Come back.' This is the regulation farewell at gas stations, soda fountains, general stores, tourist camps. 'Come back,' they call, 'come back.' Do they feel marooned in one place, lost, needing to believe someone will return to share their exile on the similar main streets, in the varied but always new-looking land?

  Martha Gellhorn

  Believe, Farewell, Land

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The View from the Ground”, p.85, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  War, Divorce, Fighting

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• A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime. This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.

  Achim Steiner

  Country, Keys, Effort

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• I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

  Ronan Farrow

  Sibling, America, Long

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• some journalists have described the South Pole as 'hell on earth.' Others refer to my time here as 'an ordeal.' They would be surprised to know how beautiful Antarctica has seemed to me, with its waves of ice in a hundred shades of blue and white, its black winter sky, its ecstatic wheel of stars. They would never understand how the lights of the Dome welcomed me from a distance, or how often I danced and sang and laughed here with my friends. And how I was not afraid.

  Jerri Nielsen

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

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• A New York friend said that visiting the South reminded her of nothing more than being in high school again.

  Rosemary Daniell

  New York, School, Visiting

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• I grew up in Chicago on the South Side, and had a ton of freedom, just did whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. At the risk of sounding dopey, I would say it was blissful.

  George Saunders

  Risk, Chicago, Sides

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The Reformed Church was identified with the old all-white government of South Africa and its apartheid policy. The Roman Catholic Church was closely identified with the Franco and Salazar dictatorships in Spain and Portugal. . . . More recently, . . . the Serbian Orthodox Church has come to be identified with the policies of Serbia (Yugoslavia).

  Edd Doerr

  Government, Yugoslavia, White

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• [To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

  Helen Suzman

  Civilization, White, Skins

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• The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Real, Differences, Cooking

  Gertrude Atherton (2014). “Senator North”, p.103, The Floating Press

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• The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.

  Helen Bevington

  Slavery, Guilty, Poor

  Helen Smith Bevington (1971). “The house was quiet and the world was calm”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Even though I am very tied to and close to my heritage, I learned Spanish in college; I didn't grow up with it. Growing up in South Texas is different from Miami or L.A. where it is a necessity to speak Spanish.

  Eva Longoria

  Growing Up, College, Texas

  "Interview: Eva Longoria". www.blackstarnews.com. April 19, 2006.

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• For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.

  David Harewood

  Beautiful, Country, Interesting

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• Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community... I love the South.

  Laurie Holden

  Home, Community, Tree

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

  Bill Vaughan

  Class, England, Huge

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• I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get you shot for if you did it in a drama.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Strong, Drama, Political

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• Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.

  Iggy Pop

  Good Day, Blow, Past

  "Iggy Pop: 'I was looking for an elegant coma'". Interview with Mark Tutton, www.cnn.com. July 1, 2009.

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