#count

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#ever #government #great #great writer #having

I grew up as a country boy. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#country #country boy #grew #i #up

Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#around #become #country #degrees #departments

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#country #down #dumber #get #gets

If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find. ↗

— Bubba Sparxxx

#america #any #city #country #directly

In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#champion #chess #country #feel #help

As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#analogy #bankrupt #bankruptcy #country #doubt

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#countries #data #gun #gun control #laws

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#balanced #balanced budget #budget #budgets #genuinely

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#beginning #completely #democratic #fact #form