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"My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.
My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: countries, europe, foreign, fun, holidays, humor, traffic

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"Als it is hard for America to fight wars in the name of freedom, if those people themselves choose for nonfreedom. Can America and England save India from communism, if they vote communist themselves."
— Oswald Mosley (Ich glaube an Europa: Ein Weg aus der Krise, eine Einführung in das europäische Denken)

tags: communism, communist, foreign, freedom, imperialism, india, nonfreedom, policy

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""...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.""
— Fareed Zakaria (The Post-American World)

tags: affairs, foreign, international, national, policy, relations

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"The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind.
However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity."
— Brain W. Aldiss (In afterword to "Hothouse")

tags: confused, creativity, foreign, missing, native

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"Kolik jazyků znáš, tolikrát jsi člověkem."
— proverb

tags: czech, foreign, languages

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"What obliged her to put her faith in a foreign religion. Catholic, universal, what you will, the problem remains: Catholicism springs from the Western world. Even to understand it is European. It is supported by Europe's institutions, and one can love it only by enrolling oneself in the history of a civilization."
— V Y Mudimbe

tags: catholic, catholicism, foreign, religion

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"Dovie'andi se toyva sagain."
— Robert Jordan

tags: battlecry, foreign, inspirational, language

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"Peace, commerse and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: alliances, foreign, friendship, honesty, nations, peace, policy, trade

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