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No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

—Woodrow Wilson, 1915

All of life is a foreign country.

—Jack Kerouac, 1949

I do desire we may be better strangers.

—William Shakespeare, 1600

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

—William Hazlitt, 1823

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

—Voltaire, 1764

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

—George Eliot, 1866

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

—Hebrews, c. 60

When you name yourself, you always name another.

—Bertolt Brecht, 1926

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

—L.P. Hartley, 1953
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