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A nation is the same people living in the same place.

— James Joyce

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

— Millard Fillmore

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are.

— Louis D. Brandeis

Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

— Marianne Williamson

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

— Dale Carnegie

A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

— Otto Bauer

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

— Mahatma Gandhi

✗Opposing Perspectives

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

— Emile M. Cioran

I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's so vague. I mean what is a nation? A nation is full of nice and bad and long and tall and short and thin people. It's not like everybody is the same.

— Marjane Satrapi

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

— William Ralph Inge