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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

~Barbara Bush

Topics: Anyone Better Country Else Healthy Morals Than Think Thinks

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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

~Barbara Bush

Topics: Afghanistan Complicated Country Mean Rugged Very

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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Asleep Casualty Classic Command Committed Country Defense Falling Kim Korea Latest Leader Man Meeting Men Military Minister No Country North North Korea Offense Old Old Men Ongoing Purge Senior Supreme Who

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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Country Deliberately Internet Kept Korea North North Korea Only Only Country Out World

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Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Best Broadcast Country Crime Difficult Else Everybody Everybody Else Foreign Government Koreans Listen Live Lives Locked May Much North Result Serious Think World Worse

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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Better Better Off Country Ignorant Keeping Kept Korea Lie Living Normal North North Korea Off Outside Outside World People Power Regime Standards Supports Underlying Ways World

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By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Better Broken Country Days Everything Had Korea Nearly North North Korea Out Seen Worn

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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Country Developed Fallen Korea North North Korea Out World

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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

~Barbara Jordan

Topics: About American Cannot Country Discarded Gains Guiding Idea Indigenous Political Principles Represent Short-Term Understand Which

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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Been Began Country Depicted Easy Fiction Fun Manner Outsiders Poke Poor Region Ridiculed Since Situation Sort Southern Suspicious Them Us Versus Very

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