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I sound like a racist, a benighted man or a xenophobe, but I'm motivated by love for my country and the knowledge that I don't have another country.

~Eli Yishai

Topics: Another Country Knowledge Like Love Man Motivated Sound

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My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and became researchers and professors.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: America Became Born Country Medical Medical School Met Moved Parents Professors Researchers School Secular Top Turkey Were

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It is tiring to be Turkish. The country is badly polarised, bitterly politicized. Every writer, journalist, poet knows that because of an article, a novel, an interview, a poem or a tweet you can be sued, put on trial, even arrested. Self-censorship is widespread.

~Elif Safak

Topics: Arrested Article Badly Because Country Even Every Interview Journalist Knows Novel Poem Poet Put Self-Censorship Sued Tiring Trial Turkish Tweet Widespread Writer You

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Turkey is a complex country. Most readers are women, of all generations, and they are passionate about books. However, the written culture is mostly patriarchal. In general, men write; women read. I would like to see this pattern changing. More women should write novels, poems, plays, and hopefully, more men will read fiction.

~Elif Safak

Topics: About Books Changing Complex Country Culture Fiction General Generations Hopefully However Like Men More Most Mostly Novels Passionate Patriarchal Pattern Plays Poems Read Readers See Should Turkey Will Women Would Write Written

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In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.

~Elihu Root

Topics: Aggression Always Another Country Desire First First Place Get Inspired Intentional Place Policy Possession Pretext Right Sought Territory Trade Wrong

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The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything.

~Elihu Root

Topics: Claims Countries Country Declaring Everything Extreme Listen Most Orator Other Other Countries Own Politicians Popular Popularity Right Seek Statements Tendency Who Wrong

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As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same.

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: Am American American Citizen Any Being Blood Citizen Country Hold Laws Liberty Long Myself Please Publish Runs Same Shall Speak Subject Veins Whatever Write I Am

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I have appealed to the constitution and laws of my country; if they fail to protect me, I appeal to God, and with Him I cheerfully rest my cause. I can die at my post, but I cannot desert it.

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: Appeal Appealed Cannot Cause Cheerfully Constitution Country Desert Die Fail God Him Laws Me Post Protect Rest I Can

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Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this country were born free, and that they are slaves now is the sin, not of those who introduced the race into this country, but of those, and those alone, who now hold them and have held them in slavery from their birth.

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: Alone Believe Birth Born Country Free Held Hold Introduced Men Now Race Sin Slavery Slaves Them Those Were Who

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For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.

~Elin Hilderbrand

Topics: Best Country Course Ended Going Graduate Graduate School Iowa Program School University Up Which Writing

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