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Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

#character #country #defined #discharge #duty

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts. ↗

— Ella Fitzgerald

#counts #going #where #you

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude. ↗

— Joan Collins

#being #british #countries #far #find

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. ↗

— Confucius

#badly #country #governed #poverty #something

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#back #breakdown #country #folk #gentle

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#america #aware #become #come #country

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#best #between #classes #country #dependence

I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass. ↗

— Billy Corgan

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