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• All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. (Samuel Johnson) [countries/fortune]
• Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking. (Roland Barthes) [countries///pleasure]
• Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation. (Jean Baudrillard) [laughter/television/countries/business]
• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations -- wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. (Edmund Burke) [condition/men/countries/wine]
• Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries. (Kenneth Clarke) [action/sense of duty/countries/countries]
• Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. (Denis Diderot) [morals/countries/result/government]
• Great countries are those that produce great people. (Benjamin Disraeli) [countries/people]
• I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home? (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/countries/light]
• One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. (Henry James) [high/countries/life/wonder]
• In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman. (Sinclair Lewis) [countries/art/literature/america]
• Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements. (Nelson Mandela) [role/fight/countries]
• In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children. (John Ruskin) [countries/parents/countries/parents]
• Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. (George Bernard Shaw) [patriotism/countries]
• It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God. (Henry David Thoreau) [god/countries/goodwill/mankind]
• Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. (Gore Vidal) [business/countries/faith]
• I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments. (Daniel Radcliffe) [people/countries]
• That's the cool part of the business, going to different countries with your friends and having everything paid for by the studios. (Leonardo DiCaprio) [business/countries]
• “When I wanted to do this job it was for making movies not for the glitter. Of course with the fame I got more offers from different countries so it is great to have huge luxuries for an actor to work and to have the choice. But after, in life, I can't enjoy anonymity. But I can hide myself.” (Audrey Tautou) [fame/more/countries/choice]
• “So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.” (Geena Davis) [countries/government/think/change]
• “A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.” (Geena Davis) [leader/countries]
• Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change. (Shannon Elizabeth) [change/countries/people/change]
• The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was just interesting to see how the show is actually received in so many different countries. (Shiri Appleby) [people/countries]
• When you're still based in different countries, you can't start a family whilst that's going on. (Natalie Imbruglia) [countries/family]
• “We grew up together so it was nice to lead our countries against one another,” (David Beckham) [nice/countries]
• Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change. (Elizabeth Shannon) [change/countries/people/change]
• The president of South Korea is very keen that other countries help to engage North Korea by bringing it in from the cold. (Robin Cook) [president/countries/cold]
• Those teeth will be supplied by the NATO countries (Robin Cook) [willpower/countries]
• Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better. (Marian Wright Edelman) [countries/child/demand]
• In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career. (Edward Albert) [age/career/countries/film]

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