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• The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Law, Creating, United States

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• There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friends, Ties, Unity

  "Oratio Pro Cnœo Plancio", II, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 827-28,

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• Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the United States and Japan, the break with the past has been particularly traumatic.

  Susan Sontag

  Country, Giving Up, Past

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.11, Macmillan

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• The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America.

  Jim Ryun

  Taken, Years, America

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• We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

  Dean Acheson

  Cooperation, Instruments, United Nations

  Dean Acheson (1950). “Strengthening the Forces of Freedom: Selected Speeches and Statements of Secretary of State Acheson, February 1949 - April 1950 [and Supplement May-June 1950].”

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• When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.

  Harold Evans

  Vitality, United States, Firsts

  "Evans' epic recounts the story of a nation" by Jonathan D. Austin, www.cnn.com. November 13, 1998.

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• The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances.

  Leon Panetta

  United States, States, Circumstances

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• The United States was attacked on 9/11/12, and we know who attacked us.

  Leon Panetta

  United States, States, Knows

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• One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.

  Leon Panetta

  Country, Ku Klux Klan, United States

  "‘A Whole New Era’". Interview with Lois Farrow Parshley, foreignpolicy.com. September 17, 2012.

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• Now is not the time to open the border to receive Canadian beef down to the United States.

  Max Baucus

  United States, Borders, Beef

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• In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries, public debate has at all times been dominated by the adherents of a "free" economy.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Country, United States, Degrees

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• I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.

  Spalding Gray

  New York, Thinking, Vegetables

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• I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Gratitude, Short Life, Grief

  Tribute to Princess Diana on the Eve of her Funeral, delivered 9 September 1997, Chinese Dining Room at Buckingham Palace, Westminster

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• Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Soul, Ordinary, Body

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• Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Country, Strong, Reality

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• The Russians will never be able to get their missiles thought the dense protective layer of delayed flights circling over the United States in complex, puke-inducing holding patterns.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• The beer sold here in the United States is sweet and watery and lacking in taste and overcarbonated and just generally the lamest, wimpiest beer in the entire known world. All the other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer, and we are drinking Barry Manilow.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Sweet, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.18, Ballantine Books

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• It is great fun dying in the United States of America. It is great fun first of all for the undertakers who make a wonderful living out of it but also for the deceased who suddenly becomes the centre of attention and fuss.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, America

  George Mikes (1959). “How to scrape skies: the United States explored, rediscovered and explained”

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• Flying from the United States to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, School

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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• Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Japan

  George Mikes (1970). “The land of the rising yen: Japan”, Harvard Common Press

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• We have a much bigger objective. We've got to look at the long run here. This is an example - the situation between the United Nations and Iraq - where the United Nations is deliberately intruding into the sovereignty of a sovereign nation.... Now this is a marvelous precedent (to be used in) all countries of the world.

  Stansfield Turner

  Running, Country, Money

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• We are beginning to see practical support. And this is a very significant sign of the movement towards a new era, a new age.... We see both in our country and elsewhere... ghosts of the old thinking.... When we rid ourselves of their presence, we will be better able to move toward a new world order...relying on the relevent mechanisms of the United Nations.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Money, Moving

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• Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he has shifty eyes and funny shoes and he won't talk about anything except the injustice of the United States income tax structure toward people with fluctuating income, or how to breed Black Angus cows, or something.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Writing, Eye

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• The United States has adventured upon a great and noble experiment . . . of total separation of Church and State. . . . The offices of the Government are open alike to all. No tithes are levied to support an established Hierarchy, nor is the fallible judgment of man set up as the sure and infallible creed of faith. . . . Such is the great experiment which we have tried, and . . . our system of free government would be imperfect without it.

  John Tyler

  Men, Office, Support

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• European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as if it were buried under their ruins.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Fall, Church, World

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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