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• Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Topics in Country

• It was all so far away – there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Topics in Country, Work

• The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

  Bainbridge Colby

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  Tags in Citizenship

• When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, ‘That’s just that ole blues singer.’

  B.B. King

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Trying

• I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years either.

  Trent Lott

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  Tags in Proud

• I think Tahoe is one of the hidden gems in the country, and I’ve played a lot of golf around the country. You can’t beat the smells and the clean air and just the way it makes you feel.

  Trent Dilfer

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Feel

• Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.

  Georges Rouault

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  Tags in Feeling

• If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.

  V. S. Naipaul

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• But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don’t. Don’t evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

  Umberto Eco

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  Tags in Intellectual

• While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.

  Tran Duc Luong

  Topics in Country, Life

• The damage done to this country by its own misconduct in the last few months and years, to its very heart and soul, is far greater and longer lasting than any damage that any terrorist could possibly inflict upon us.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

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  Tags in Damage

• If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.

  Townsend Harris

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Japan

• Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.

  Townsend Harris

  Topics in Country

• We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.

  Townsend Harris

  Topics in Country

• When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this.

  Townsend Harris

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Satisfied, United States

• This country is going to implode, or put another way, it’s going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can’t have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in Country

• I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, ‘the soft bigotry of low expectations.’

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in Country

• That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don’t expect them to learn, if you don’t expect them to succeed – then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Tavis Smiley

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• One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don’t want to get involved in this.

  Tony Greig

  Topics in Country, Life

  Tags in Interviewing

• Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

  Tony Greig

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