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Letter "F" » foreign
«When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.»
«You must not kill your neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(
Logician,
Philosopher)
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Keywords:
foreign,
genuinely,
hate,
heroism,
impulses,
kill,
murderous,
must not,
nation,
neighbor,
neighboring,
patriotic,
perhaps,
propaganda,
transfer,
transferred,
transferring,
transfers
«Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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About:
Culture,
Knowledge,
Language,
Travel
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Keywords:
foreign,
foreign language,
foreign languages,
knows,
know nothing,
languages,
languages of,
of their own,
Other languages,
Their language,
their own language
«We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(
President)
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Keywords:
alien,
American people,
American values,
competitive,
entrust,
entrusting,
entrusts,
falsehood,
foreign,
market,
Open market,
philosophies,
The American,
unpleasant,
values
«Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except for heaven and hell, and I have only a vague curiosity as concerns one of those.»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
charm,
concerns,
countries,
curiosity,
foreign,
Heaven and Hell,
longer,
no Hell,
no longer,
seen,
travel,
vague,
vaguer
«When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.»
Author: Plato
(
Philosopher)
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About:
Enemies,
Leadership,
Tyranny
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Keywords:
conquest,
disposed,
disposes,
dispose of,
disposing,
foreign,
require,
stirring,
stirrings,
Treaties,
treaty,
tyrant