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A man's country is not a certain area of land of mountains rivers and woods but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

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George William Curtis
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Category: Patriotism

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age he wanted to be an Episcopal priest because he so admired his priest a black man from someplace called Haiti.
  • 2. It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood all the work into middle age and all the regrets into old age.
  • 3. The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age and an age is heroic because of what it is not because of what it does.

2 Amazing

  • 1. If you spend enough time in or around Washington you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.
  • 2. My mom was amazing. She believed in me and we were best friends.
  • 3. I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is a transient hatred or at least very like it.
  • 2. Growing up in a particular neighborhood growing up in a working-class family not having much money all of those things fire you and can give you an edge can give you an anger.
  • 3. With Stacy it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that their different styles came out of that.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. We can't forget what happened on May 4th 1970 when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.
  • 2. This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades.
  • 3. It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed and every single one of his friends still after all these years… it's unbelievable.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
  • 2. There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
  • 3. The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.
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