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My Country right or wrong; when right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right.
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The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable.
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"Nice guys finish last!" --Leo Durocher (dead; and long-time manager of the Chicago Cubs, who usually finished dead last...go figgur  )
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>Patriotism is the notion that one's country is the best because one was born in it. I first read this as attributed to GBS, and last I checked, he was pushing up daisies, so you're OK. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/q107008.html
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"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."
--Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900 German philosopher)
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"It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars."
--Arthur C. Clarke (not dead yet, but too good to pass up)
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"Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may."
--Mark Twain, (1835-1910, American Writer)
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"Nationalism" has no worth outside of that which is good.
The swinging of flags by nations that have never directed light towards the realization of the community of man (name your country) are a blight upon earth.
We, the United States of America, the leading directment of the idea that all people are one, have through time, clearly demonstrated our understanding that people of the world belong to a single group of sapient individuals... with everyone wondering...? why the heck are we here?
________________ ~~~ Johnny "Guitar" Watson
(as he would have said it before he died.)
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"Nice guys finish seventh!" not last!
actually i was just reading about your 'quote' WO'N-- Durocher never said it.. what he said, at a time when the 'league' had seven member teams was "Nice guys finish seventh" but at the number of teams in the baseball league grew, it didn't have the same meaning, and it got recast as Nice guys finish last!" which captured the idea he was expressing..
faldage isn't the only one who can nit pick!
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"Quotation: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated." --Ambrose Bierce "Perish the man who said our good things before us." --Donatus 
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