"If a country is not worth protecting it is not worth claiming."

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George Rogers Clark

#Country Quotes

“She just wished loving him didnâ€™t always have to be so hard.”
“I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.”
“I'm just gonna be honest and if I feel something, I'm just gonna say it! Once I started doing that, my music just got better.”
“Broke is a Hollywood term!”
“Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.”

Source : Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”
“Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the court jester, the one soul allowed to tell the truth through laughter. It is, in many ways, the most powerful form of free speech because it is aimed at those in power, or those whose ideas would spread hate. It is the canary in the coalmine, a cultural thermometer, and it always has to push, push, push the boundaries of society to see how much itâ€™s grown.”
“The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be burned, buried alive, driven out into the woods and there allowed to die. One of my patients struck his neck so often on the edge of a chisel fixed on the ground that all the soft parts were cut through to the vertebrae.”

Source : Emil Kraepelin (2002). “Lifetime Editions of Kraepelin in English: Manic-depressive insanity and paranoia”, Thoemmes Pr
“When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.”

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