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“And so, my fellow Americans... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” John F. Kennedy, “Inaugural Address” - 20 January 1961

“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself,...” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” - 1839

“To tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country.” Rabindranath Tagore, “The Home and the World” - 1916

“To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.” Rabindranath Tagore, “The Home and the World” - 1916

“Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and of themselves.” Alexis de Tocqueville, “Democracy in America” - 1840

“Physically speaking, we can not separate. We can not remove our respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but...” Abraham Lincoln, “State of the Union Address” - 1 December 1862

“If the country were open on its borders, new forms would certainly immigrate, and this would likewise seriously disturb the relations of some of the former inhabitants.” Charles Darwin, “On The Origin of Species” - 1859

“The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.” Theodore Roosevelt, “Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography” - 1913

“Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth; seeing none before myself had ever written of that country, wherein are above five-and-twenty kingdoms...” François Rabelais, “Gargantua and Pantagruel” - 1534

“Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldn’t be our country’s primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition.” Warren Buffett, “The Essays of Warren Buffett” - 1997

“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people.” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

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