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«New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.»
Author: Barry Humphries
(Actor, Comic, Writer)
| About:
Country
| Keywords:
thousand million, Zealand
«No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.»
Author: Frederick Scott Oliver
| About:
Country,
Principles,
Rules,
Sermons
| Keywords:
Sermon on the Mount
«Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.»
Author: Rebecca Harding Davis
| About:
Country
| Keywords:
hills, Hill Country, Pennsylvania, tranquil, unpainted, unsung
«Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong»
«One of the strongest prejudices that one has to overcome when one visits Australia is that created by the weird jargon than passes for English in this country»
«No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.»
Author: Henry Kissinger
(Political scientist)
| About:
Action,
Country
| Keywords:
globe, simultaneously, The Globe, wisely
«Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then»
Author: Tom Lehrer
(Mathematician, Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Country,
Prayer,
Religion,
War
| Keywords:
bothered, eighteen, Germans, nineteen, warlike
«My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.»
«Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.»
Author: Charles de Gaulle
| About:
Country
| Keywords:
caution, old country, transform, wrapped, wrapped up
«No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .»
Author: John Donne
| About:
Country,
Friends,
Mankind,
Nations
| Keywords:
an island, clod, Continent, Europe, island, promontory, the continent, Thine, washed, wash away
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