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“Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.”

Feels Country Born Exile

Author:Azar Nafisi

“I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country... No other country has such human capital.”

Humans Country Young Born Feminine Other Countries Masculine Masculine And Feminine

Author:Rita Levi-Montalcini

“For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.”

Country Sometimes America Easy Born Forget Special Raised Including Born And Raised

Author:Marco Rubio

“My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in rural Ohio in the 1950s, where my dad became the town doctor and I was born.”

World War Country Parent Born Dad Doctors Towns My Dad Jew War Of The Worlds My Sister World War Ii World War I Survived Ohio Auschwitz Czechoslovakia Dachau

Author:Julie Salamon

“...children born today-in both the industrialized world and developing countries-will live longer and be healthier, they will get more food, a better education, a higher standard of living, more leisure time and far more possibilities-without the global environment being destroyed.”

“No matter where you're born in life or what the circumstances are when you're born, like your parents being poor or not connected to power, you have a chance in this country to go as far as your talent and your work will take you.”

Country Matter Parent Born Chance Poor Talent Like You Circumstances Connected

Author:Marco Rubio

“Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.”

Children Country Born Football Playing Football Cameroon

Author:Roger Milla

“America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part of the viable America, the America that is connected to its own economy, where there is a plausible future for the people born into it.”

People Two Country America Born Economy Connected Block Plausible Baltimore Schizophrenic One On One

Author:David Simon

“I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.”

Country Age Film Certain Born Pieces March Rome Strands Film History

Author:Giovanna Cau

“Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes & effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities.”

World Country Next Heaven Nations Causes Born Sin Effects Masters Judgment Slave Chains Inevitable Tyrants Providence Can Not Petty Calamity Petty Tyrants

Author:George Mason

“Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope... Barack Hussein Obama did not win because of the color of his skin. Nor did he win in spite of it. He won because at a very dangerous moment in the life of a still young country, more people than have ever spoken before came together to try to save it. And that was a victory all its own.”

People Trying Stills Country Moments Together Young Winning Born Imagination Dangerous Color Victory Skins Barack Spite Hussein Palaces Scrap

Author:Nancy Gibbs

“In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine.”

Men Country Born Rocks Mountain Rivers Sunshine Fountain Offspring

Author:John Muir

“It is hard for many people to give up the religion in which they were born; to admit that their fathers were utterly mistaken, and that the sacred records of their country are but collections of myths and fables.”

People Giving Country Hard Father Born Records Giving Up Sacred Myth Collections Mistaken Fables

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.”

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“If you get a chance to go outside of the country, you start examining where you're from and some of the thought processes. Like when I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before, because I was born there and just dropped right into it.”

Ifs Country Process Born Chance East Coast Examining Thought Process East Coast

Author:Bill Burr

“[The 4 spiritual laws and sinner's prayer] is not the gospel of Jesus Christ, and that methodology and envangelism has done more to hurt this country than every heresy introduced by every cult combined. Millions of people in this country whose lives have never been changed believed themselves born again because we have so reduced the gospel of Jesus Christ that it means now nothing more than simple decision that will only take five minutes of your time.”

People Mean Country Done Spiritual Law Jesus Christ Born Hurt Prayer Simple Decision Millions Five Minutes Changed Jesus Christ Sinner Cult Five Minutes Heresy Born Again Methodology

Author:Paul Washer