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Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel.

Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone elses? – Wallace Shawn

Other quotes by Wallace Shawn

I dont happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I dont know whats funny about a character… This happens to be a feature of my life generally. – Wallace Shawn

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funny
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Wallace Shawn
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You can go to a play that is enjoyable because its funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play thats enjoyable because its disturbing. – Wallace Shawn

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funny
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Wallace Shawn
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freuds Interpretation of Dreams was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was! – Wallace Shawn

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Dreams
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Patriotism
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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? – Blaise Pascal, quoted by Tolstoy in Bethink Yourselves

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Patriotism

Who saves his country violates no law. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Patriotism

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes. – Kjell Magne Bondevik

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Patriotism

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism. – John Avlon

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Patriotism

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. – Aldous Huxley

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Knowledge

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Family

Im happily single. – Paula Abdul

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alone

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. – W.B. Yeats

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Poetry