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There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its maxims. It has no temple nor even a solitary column...However, out fates at least are social. Our courses do not diverge; but as the web of destiny is woven it is fulled, and we are cast more and more into the centre. Men naturally, though feebly, seek this alliance, and their actions faintly foretell it. We are inclined to lay the chief stress on likeness and not... Henry David Thoreau
You fools! Don't you realize what it means if the Chinese remain? Don't you remember your history? The last time the Chinese came, they stayed a thousand years. The French are foreigners. They are weak. Colonialism is dying. The white man is finished in Asia. But if the Chinese stay now, they will never go. As for me, I prefer to sniff French shit for five years than to eat Chinese shit for the rest of my life. Ho Chi Minh
He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools. C. S. Lewis
Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go. Ray Bradbury
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians. Bertolt Brecht
The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be drawn into unfamiliar territory, walking in borrowed literary shoes so to speak, toward a deeper understanding of self or society, or of foreign peoples, cultures, and situations. Chinua Achebe
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. Carson McCullers
Augusten Burroughs quote: "I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly..."
I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child. Augusten Burroughs
Her father was frightened by a strange bed or a foreign language or a political party he didn't belong to. Her father truly believed that the Democratic party was a subversive organization whose design would destroy the United States and put it in the hands of bearded communists. John Steinbeck
Well, that is all the notes and there is not much else in the paper of any importance. I never take much interest in foreign parts. Who's this Archduke man who has been murdered?"What does it matter to us?" asked Miss Cornelia, unaware of the hideous answer to her question, which destiny was even then preparing. "Someone is always murdering or being murdered in those Balkan States. It's their normal condition and I don't really think that our papers ought to publish such shocking things. L. M. Montgomery
Terry Prachett quote: "[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about..."
[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners. Terry Prachett
Lee Myung-bak quote: "Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is..."
Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is no restriction on foreign investment in Korea. Lee Myung-bak
Robert Mueller quote: "So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of..."
So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants. Robert Mueller
I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in. Hosni Mubarak
Christopher Morley quote: "Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it."
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. Christopher Morley

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