writer Quotes
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Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.
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Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.
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As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
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Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.
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To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.