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“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

“I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.”

World Mean Country Done Bigs Given Chance Forget Effort Poverty Lows Debt Income Indebted Good Chance Low Income

Author:Rodrigo Rato

“Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.”

Way Country Past Language Forget Tradition Command Symbols

Author:Slobodan Milosević

“Leading my country out at the World Cup was something I'll never forget.”

World Country Forget Cups Never Forget World Cup

Author:Mark Viduka

“In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't cut it since Big Bang in 1986, the point at which Mrs. Thatcher really started to achieve her ambition to make this country more like America - its ambition, economy, it's very tangible measures of success.”

World Country Bigs America House Forget Economy Cutting Achieve Politician Ambition Pressure London Lovely Extras Bangs Tangible Measure Of Success Mrs Thatcher

Author:Peter York

“Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of avoiding responsibility. You blame the problems in your country on someone else, on some group.”

People Way Country Problem Christian Jesus Christ Forget Responsibility Groups Jesus Christ Blame Jew Artificial Avoiding Anti Semitism

Author:Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done and suffered to make his country what it is? There is room, plenty of room, for proper pride of land and birth. What I inveigh against is a cursed spirit of intolerance, conceived in distrust and bred in ignorance, that makes the mental attitude perennially antagonistic, even bitterly antagonistic, to everything foreign, that subordinates everywhere the race to the nation, forgetting the higher claims of human brotherhood.”

Source: Aequanimitas, and Other Papers that Have Stood the Test of Time. [With an Introd. by Paul Dudley White]

“I left Cuba when I was two years old. They took away my country, they stole the most intimate thing a human being can have. How could I forget that Fidel Castro was the person who did me so much harm?”

Years Humans Persons Two Country Left Human Beings Forget Harm Intimate Two Years Cuba Castro Two Year Olds

Author:Gloria Estefan

“There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives ... their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.... Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.”

People Thinking Mind Country Death Dies Left Forget Growing Flower Honor Terrible Mourn Cotton

Author:Charles Bukowski

“The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we're here not for purposes of retribution but to forget the past and to build our country.”

People Country Past Purpose Nations Forget Powerful Building Messages Our Country Chords Reconciliation Retribution Nation Building Amnesty Forget The Past

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.”

People Country Culture Forget Race Speech Pot Now And Then Freedom Of Speech Melting Melting Pot

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“100,000 soldiers are reported to have died in the Iraqi war. If you count 100 relatives of each soldier, it means that practically there are millions of people who now have antagonism toward the white people of America. These Arab people will remember this country whose main religion is Christianity, who came and destroyed all Iraqi facilities and industry. They won't easily forget this.”

People Ifs Mean War Country America Remember White Forget Christianity Millions Industry Died Soldier Destroyed Facility Antagonism

Author:Sun Myung Moon

“But even now, after the greatest victory known to history we cannot for one minute forget the basic fact that our country remains the one socialist state in the world. You will speak frankly about this to the collective farmers...Only the most concrete, most immediate danger, which threatened us from Hitlerite Germany, has disappeared.”

World Country States Facts Speak Forget Known Minutes Danger Victory Remains Our Country Germany Collectives Farmers Concrete Socialist Threatened One Minute Greatest Victory

Author:Mikhail Kalinin

“I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.”

Thinking Way Kind Country Beautiful Artist Forget Negative South Beautiful Things Stereotype Northerners Negative Stereotypes

Author:Genevieve Gorder