Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them

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ALAMGIR HASHMI Keeping what you have is hard like searching for what you've lost.
AULIQ ICE He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
ELBERT HUBBARD Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
KIN HUBBARD We are not punished for our sins, but by them
ELBERT HUBBARD We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
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JOHN W. GARDNER I love and care for everyone because I know the pain of being unloved and uncared.
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ADAM SCHIFF Men are punished by their sins, not for them.
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SONNY MEHTA step by step; the language of orderliness.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The love for country must be first & above any political office you greatly desire to occupy.
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ANUJ SOMANY wo chhod dete hain jb hm tnha hote hain wo paas hote hain jb mere paas hazaro hopte hain.
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ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN History has in different questions laid out some tremendous turnabouts and curves.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when yo...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere el...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN - Не иначе как двенадцать, - объявил и Шухов. - Солнышко н...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The fact that no one made demands on her knowledge in her special field was lucky for Simochka. Not ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN So let the reader who expects this book to be a political exposé slam its covers shut right now. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no mor...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his p...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN (Please forgive us, reader. We have once more gone astray with this rightist opportunism—this conc...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Those who floated in the ark were weightless and had weightless thoughts. They were neither hungry n...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-K...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national h...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Where an open war is impossible, oppression can continue quietly behind the scenes. Terrorism. Guerr...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, n...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN By apeculiar coincidence, the very day when I was giving my address in Washington, ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalit...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I think, ladies and gentlemen, and I particularly address those of you who have a socialist outlook,...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN That’s all very well, but how many family doctors would you need? It simply doesn’t fit into the...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Now for the first time you were about to see people who were not your enemies. Now for the first tim...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun...
ALEXANDER On the way to your success and realisation of the dreams you have to do one tiny thing - start do it...
ALEXANDER As more you're busy and overwhelmed as more free and leisure time you have.
ALEXANDER Occasionally, I don't invent something and I don't lie, sometimes there're moments when I just don't...
ALEXANDER I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and elo...
ALEXANDER Being unique - be yourself, only so you'll distinguish yourself out of the ''grey'' and motionless r...
ALEXANDER Live with the current day, otherwise someday you'll wake up and realise that all remarkable and gorg...
ALEXANDER Endeavour to explore the surrounding world, try to do your best and jump over you head, only in that...
ALEXANDER As more busier and overwhelmed you're, as more free time you have.
ALEXANDER Facing the obstacle don't fall in depression, just reverse the problem and take a glance at it at an...
ALEXANDER Everything what you do has sense. If you don't like the world around you can draw your own, compose ...
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Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them

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Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them

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