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Helen Keller

Author, Political Activist, Lecturer

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.

Bank - Countries - Demanding - Man - Meaning - Right - Speculation

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

Countries - Curiosity - Show - Wishing

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Mao Zedong

Founding Father of the People's Republic of China

It will take a long period to decide the issue in the ideological struggle between socialism and capitalism in our country. The reason is that the influence of the bourgeoisie and of the intellectuals who come from the old society will remain in our country for a long time to come, and so will their class ideology. If this is not sufficiently understood, or is not understood at all, the gravest mistakes will be made and the necessity of waging the struggle in the ideological field will be ignored.

Countries - Ideology - Ignoring - Making

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Horace

Poet, Senator, Soldier

What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

Ability - Countries

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Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher, Writer, Translator, Historian, Mathematician

I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.

Countries - Man

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Jules Verne

Novelist, Poet, Playwright

In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.

Countries - Phenomena

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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

Israel has legitimate concerns about its security relative to Iran. I mean, you have a large country with a significant military that has proclaimed that Israel shouldn't exist, that has denied the Holocaust, that has financed Hezbollah, and as a consequence, there are missiles that are pointed towards Tel Aviv. There are very good reasons why Israelis are nervous about Iran's position in the world generally.

Countries - Meaning - Nervousness - Relatives - Significance

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Countries - Merchant - Politics - Strength

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Bill Gates

Business Magnate, Investor, Humanitarian

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

Countries - Planet

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Kofi Annan

Former Secretary General of the United Nations

Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the presence or even the fear of the presence of a single landmine can prevent the cultivation of an entire field, rob a whole village of its livelihood, place yet another obstacle on a country's road to reconstruction and development

Countries - Innocence - Lie - Whole

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

There's a radical insurgency, which is a large part of the Republican base, which is willing to do anything, destroy the country, whatever, in order to get rid of this Affordable Care Act. That's the one thing that they're able to hang onto.

Ability - Countries

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Margaret Thatcher

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.

Countries - Man

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Composer, Musician

When I come to reflect on the subject, in no country have I received such honors or been so esteemed as in Italy, and nothing contributes more to a man's fame than to have written Italian operas, and especially for Naples.

Countries - Honor - Italy - Receiving - Reflection - Writing

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Aldous Huxley

Writer, Philosopher

Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.

Countries - Permanence

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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

I've said many times around the world that like any government, like any country, like, any set of human institutions, we have our flaws. We've operated imperfectly. There are times we've made mistakes.

Countries - Human - Making

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John McCain

Politician, Military Officer

Each Middle East country has their own unique kinds of challenges; but the fundamentals, the desire for democracy and freely elected governments is a common thread throughout.

Challenge - Countries - Kindness

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

Hillary Clinton was the one pressing the hardest for bombing, and look at what happened. They not only destroyed the country, but Libya has become the center for jihad all over Africa and the Middle East. It's a total disaster in every respect, but it does not matter. Look at the so-called global war on terror.

Countries - Destroying - Terrorism

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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

You have countries like India that have tried to help untouchables, with essentially affirmative-action programs, but it hasn't fundamentally changed the structure of their societies.

Actions - Change - Countries - Help - Programming

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Adam Smith

Author, Economist, Philosopher

A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

Citizenry - Countries - Economy - Merchant

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Napoleon

Military and Political Leader, Emperor of the French

The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country.

Army - Countries - Empires - Europe - Faithfulness

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Marshall McLuhan

Philosopher

The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.

Countries - Production

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

Countries - Kindness

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Jerry Seinfeld

Comedian, Actor, Writer, Producer, Director

To me a lawyer is basically the person that knows the rules of the country. We're all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving our pieces around the board, but if there's a problem, the lawyer is the only person that has actually read the inside of the top of the box.

Boxing - Countries - Death - Game - Movement

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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

One of the things that I've learned, and I think we've all learned, is that we are not going to get the kind of decisive, permanent victories in this fight against terrorism that we would get from fighting another country. We're not going to get that MacArthur/Emperor moment, because by definition, even after decimating Al Qaeda in the Fata, even after taking out [Osama] bin Laden there's still people there who have both the interest and the capacity if we don't maintain vigilance to strike against the United States.

Countries - Empires - Kindness - Permanence - State - Unions

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Tina Fey

Actress, Comedian, Writer, Producer, Playwright

I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, "You just haven't met the right girl yet.

Countries - Haven - Trial

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Malcolm X

Human Rights Activist

If Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins or any of these compromising Negros who say exactly what the white man wants to hear is interviewed anywhere in the country you don't get anybody to offset what they say. But whenever a black man stands up and says something that white people don't like then the first thing that man does is run around to try and find somebody to say something to offset what has just been said. This is natural but it is done.

Countries - Man - Trial - Wants

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John Adams

Former President of the United States

Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

Countries - Death - Swimming

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Albert Camus

Philosopher, Author, Journalist

Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.

Countries - Imagination - Man - Sharing

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Countries - Judging - Patriotism - Reflection - Sleeping

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James Patterson

Author

If you're ever feeling a lack of middle-aged white men, just pop into the Capitol. Not so much the House of Representatives, which has a bit more color and texture, but the Senate -- jeez. Yes, let's have more testosterone running the country. Maximum Ride, School's Out--Forever

Colors - Countries - Man

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Woody Allen

Director, Writer, Actor, Comedian

People are always talking about the dumbing down of the country.

Countries - Talk

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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

If you're an American and you are, you know, subscribing to the ideals and the creed and the values that we believe in as a country, you know, then we don't have a religious test in this country.

Belief - Countries - Religion - Value

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