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Quotes about Continent

Fourscore and seven years
ago our fathers brought forth
on this continent, a new
nation, conceived in Liberty,
and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are
created equal.
Abraham Lincoln
16th U.S. President
(1809-1865)
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LOVE KNOWS NOT
DISTANCE; IT HATH
NO CONTINENT; ITS
EYES ARE FOR THE
STARS.
Gilbert Parker
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...And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.
(Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
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In spite of the six thousand
manuals on child raising in the
bookstores, child raising is still a
dark continent and no one really
knows anything. You just need a
lot of love and luck -- and, of
course, courage.
Bill Cosby
Comedian
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THIS CONTINENT, AN
OPEN PALM SPREAD
FRANK BEFORE SKY
JAMES AGEE
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THOSE WHO
OPPRESSED US
DESCRIBED US AS THE
DARK CONTINENT!
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Gilbert Parker
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GIVE IT THE
FULCRUM OF
PLYMOUTH ROCK,
AN IDEA WILL
UPHEAVE
CONTINENT.
Wendell Phillips
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Why did human development proceed at such
different rates on different continents for the last
13,000 years?
(Jared Diamond)
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"IN A CONTINENT BUT RECENTLY SETTLED,
MANY PARTS OF WHICH HAVE AS YET LITTLE
HISTORICAL OR CULTURAL BACKGROUND, THE
MATERIAL FOR THIS VOLUME HAS BEEN
GATHERED FROM A SECTION THAT WAS ONE OF
THE FIRST TO BE COLONIZED."
HERVEY ALLEN
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REJECTS AUTHORITY
QUOTES FOUCAULT BY
MEMORY—
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In short, Europe's colonizatiön of Africa had nothing to do
with differences between European and African peoples
themselves, as white racists assume. was due to
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MONSTERS
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Across the continent,
political divisions are
deepening. For all of
these reasons, the specter
of a euro zone collapse
has not been dispatched.
Barry Eichengreen
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The Continent will not suffer
England to be the workshop of
the world.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Every man has in himself a continent of
undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the
Columbus to his own soul.
(Theodore L. Cuyler)
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The great hinderance to the development of
this continent has lain in the lack of capital.
(William Graham Sumner)
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Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent! Votes: 4

Thabo Mbeki
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On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. Votes: 4

George Mikes
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Votes: 4

Winston Churchill
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The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world. Votes: 3

Benjamin Disraeli
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. Votes: 3

E. V. Lucas
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We would continue to handle our relations with the rest of the Continent with that kind of sensitivity. Votes: 3

Thabo Mbeki
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The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent Votes: 3

Kwame Nkrumah
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My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce. Votes: 3

Charles Farrar Browne
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If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America. Votes: 3

George Catlin
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Certainly the Government has tried to handle the matter of our relations with the rest of the Continent in a very sensitive manner. Votes: 3

Thabo Mbeki
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On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic. Votes: 3

Mark Steyn
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British ferries have stopped transporting live animals to the Continent. This has made it very difficult for England fans to get to Away matches. Votes: 3

Jo Brand
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On the Continent stray cats are judged individually on their merit-some are loved, some are only respected; in England they are universally worshipped as in ancient Egypt. Votes: 3

George Mikes
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People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth. Votes: 3

George Mikes
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Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely. Votes: 3

Charles Darwin
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I don't think there would be many examples of South Africa pushing its weight around the African Continent. I don't think the facts would substantiate that argument. Votes: 3

Thabo Mbeki
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The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri. . . are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent. Votes: 3

George Catlin
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My parents don't think about Europe at all. The Continent is somewhere else. And they call it the Continent - to reflect, they are no real part of it. Votes: 3

John Gimlette
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My husband and I have enjoyed many summer holidays on the Continent, and many people say that their most memorable trips have been the journeys made on the spur of the moment. Votes: 3

Margaret Beckett
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Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain. Votes: 3

George Mikes
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The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent. Votes: 3

George Catlin
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I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent." Votes: 3

Jon Weisman
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On the Continent there is one topic which should be avoided-the weather; in England, if you do not repeat the phrase "Lovely day, isn't it?" at least two hundred times a day, you are considered a bit dull. Votes: 3

George Mikes
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Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world. Votes: 3

Karl Marx
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When my first film 'The Seventh Continent' was presented here 12 years ago, non-Austrian spectators would come up to me and say, 'Is Austria that terrible?', whereas for me it wasn't about Austria but about highly industrialised cultures everywhere. Votes: 3

Michael Haneke
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Let there be freedom for the Indians, wherever they may be in the American Continent or elsewhere in the world, because while they are alive, a glow of hope will be alive as well as a true concept of life. Votes: 3

Rigoberta Menchu
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One thing is certain: wherever the enemy lands, if once we can get to grips with him on the Continent, where we are not dependent on supplies from overseas, that ought to be, and will be, all right with us. Votes: 3

Heinrich Himmler
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The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent. Votes: 3

Joseph Hume
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The Heart is the Capital of the Mind— The Mind is a single State— The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent— One—is the Population— Numerous enough— This ecstatic Nation Seek—it is Yourself. Votes: 3

Emily Dickinson
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If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at that." In England you just say "Oh, is that so?" Or "That's rather an unusual story, isn't it? Votes: 3

George Mikes
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My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays in various Continental states France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia where the study of Continental statesmen has been almost forced upon me. Votes: 3

Andrew Dickson White
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Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves. Votes: 3

Fatos Nano
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I am closer to the pacifist side, in that I think that the British response to German aggression, which was to try to starve the Continent into a state of revolt and to terrorize German civilians with bombing raids, was part of the total catastrophe. Votes: 3

Nicholson Baker
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A united Europe is our Continent's only chance to avoid falling off the world's radar. The heads of government of Germany, France and the United Kingdom also know that their voice is only heard internationally because they speak through the megaphone of the European Union. Votes: 3

Jean-Claude Juncker
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I don't think Africa gets as much credit as it should have on the world stage. People tend to think of us as coming from The Dark Continent, where nothing good goes on. That's not true. A huge amount of, as I say, entrepreneurship goes on. Votes: 3

Nicky Oppenheimer
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There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden. Votes: 3

Hector Hugh Munro
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The Mediterranean Sea with its various branches, penetrating far into the great Continent, forms the largest gulf of the ocean, and, alternately narrowed by islands or projections of the land and expanding to considerable breadth, at once separates and connects the three divisions of the Old World. Votes: 3

Theodor Mommsen
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I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing. Votes: 3

Andrew Eldritch
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Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. Votes: 2

Gilbert Parker
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. Votes: 2

John Donne
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The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land. Votes: 2

Arnold J. Toynbee
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One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent. Votes: 2

Justin Cronin
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The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand. Votes: 2

Chester A. Arthur
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My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent. Votes: 2

Tommy Douglas
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We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa. Votes: 2

Thabo Mbeki
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And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources. Votes: 2

Miriam Makeba
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Votes: 2

Abraham Lincoln
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As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives. Votes: 2

Brian Moore
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Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent. Votes: 2

Terry Pratchett
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American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World. Votes: 2

Christopher Dawson
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My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl. Votes: 2

Jane Goodall
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I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. Votes: 2

Nelson Mandela
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Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota. Votes: 2

John Dramani Mahama
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Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here. Votes: 2

Jeff Goodell
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In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities. Votes: 2

Cynthia Ozick
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade. Votes: 2

Bono
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From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today. Votes: 2

John Hoeven
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After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union. Votes: 2

David Cameron
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Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Rather, I am referring to the African peoples. Votes: 2

Dennis Prager
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The thing to keep in mind is that we're still in the very early days when it comes to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Saying there's a silence is a bit like if Columbus, looking to discover a new continent, only sailed 10 miles off the coast of Spain before turning back to say, 'Nothing out there!' Votes: 2

Seth Shostak
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So for everybody who allows themselves to be separated from me because I said 'African' instead of 'Nubian' or 'Black' or 'Kemet' or 'original' or 'Israelite,' don't be so foolish. I say 'African' because the continent of Africa is the land from which we all originate. It is the word that we are most familiar with right now. Votes: 2

Sister Souljah
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Australia is the most isolated continent. Votes: 0

Jared Diamond
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Europe is my continent, not my country Votes: 0

John Redwood
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Every man contains within himself a ghost continent. Votes: 0

Loren Eiseley
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I take this continent with me into the grave. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury
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Africa is one continent, one people and one nation Votes: 0

Kwame Nkrumah
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Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere. Votes: 0

Anthony Kiedis
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This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky. Votes: 0

James Agee
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At beyond continent of reality, there are oceans of ideas. Votes: 0

Toba Beta
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Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent. Votes: 0

George Ayittey
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...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent. Votes: 0

Margot Fonteyn
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The African continent has always been more queer than generally acknowledged. Votes: 0

Chantal Zabus
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Here the past was everywhere, an entire continent sown with memories. Votes: 0

Miranda Richmond Mouillot
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Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form. Votes: 0

Clive Bell
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A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation. Votes: 0

Edmund Barton
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America, you have it better than our continent, the old one. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Africa is an article of faith. I believe in this continent. Votes: 0

Sunil Bharti Mittal
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Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march. Votes: 0

Claire Denis
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Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes. Votes: 0

Djimon Hounsou
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The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology. Votes: 0

Sigmund Freud
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America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation. Votes: 0

Ezra Pound
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The only continent with a growth rate lower than Europe is Antarctica. Votes: 0

Gisela Stuart
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[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions. Votes: 0

George Will
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I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent. Votes: 0

Walter Salles
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Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels. Votes: 0

H. A. L. Fisher
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We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent. Votes: 0

Diane Ackerman
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If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape Votes: 0

Maya Angelou
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India can't be looked at as a country; it's more of a continent. Votes: 0

Kabir Bedi
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries. Votes: 0

Omar Bongo
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Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem. Votes: 0

William Dunbar
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All Americans (from the vast continent America) were, are, or will be border crossers. Votes: 0

Guillermo Gomez-Pena
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Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage. Votes: 0

Martin Schulz
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Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent. Votes: 0

Amanda Ripley
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I'd have thought 50,000 years of existing on the continent would have qualified as settled. Votes: 0

Nova Peris
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Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people. Votes: 0

Carter Burwell
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A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd. Votes: 0

John Milton
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There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. Votes: 0

Thomas Paine
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If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell
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The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude. Votes: 0

Riccardo Muti
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Our continent must be allowed to do its own things, charting its course and destiny. Votes: 0

Nelson Mandela
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The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital. Votes: 0

William Graham Sumner
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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three. Votes: 0

Philip Larkin
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No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill. Votes: 0

Barbara Kingsolver
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We forgot this continent for a long time - and now, finally Africa is being rediscovered. Votes: 0

Fernando Meirelles
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China is not a country, it's a continent. India is not a country, it's a continent. Votes: 0

Jan Chipchase
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Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated. Votes: 0

James Shikwati
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I urge telecommunications regulators to develop a commercial strategy for delivering effective access to the continent. Votes: 0

Mark Shuttleworth
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The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. Votes: 0

Stephen Harper
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In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Votes: 0

Joseph Conrad
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My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West. Votes: 0

Djimon Hounsou
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From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California. Votes: 0

Frank Lloyd Wright
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I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent. Votes: 0

Jacqueline Novogratz
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May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind. Votes: 0

Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people. Votes: 0

Richard Attias
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I don't trust any country that looks around a continent and says, "Hey, I'll take the frozen part." Votes: 0

Jon Stewart
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Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence. Votes: 0

Richard Grant
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The Americas has been a relatively stable continent. The last truly new border we have is Panama in 1903. Votes: 0

Juan Enriquez
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Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right. Votes: 0

Mo Ibrahim
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Their experiments caused them to destabilize the structure of the continent and thus Atlantis sank beneath the waves. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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Assertions that Russia has undermined efforts to strengthen partnerships on the European continent do not correspond to the facts. Votes: 0

Sergei Lavrov
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India is a continent and should be divided into separate nations. There is no need for a single government. Votes: 0

C. N. Annadurai
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America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for... Votes: 0

Cindy Sheehan
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The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land." Votes: 0

Arnold J. Toynbee
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India is the one area of the sub-continent where we haven't won since I have been involved with England Votes: 0

Duncan Fletcher
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It will be celebrated... with pomp and parade... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other. Votes: 0

John Adams
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Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent. Votes: 0

Wole Soyinka
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We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent. Votes: 0

Lionel Barber
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The African continent has so many stories to tell, it's about time they are told, by them - not us. Votes: 0

Akilnathan Logeswaran
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We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent. Votes: 0

Pratibha Patil
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Father Jude Nnorom says he hopes the pope's travels in Africa will help end all the wars ravaging the continent. Votes: 0

Sylvia Poggioli
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Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them.... Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury
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England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe. Votes: 0

Albert Bushnell Hart
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The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent. Votes: 0

Barry McCaffrey
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There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected? Votes: 0

Janet Tashjian
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To have people from every continent who are working on philanthropy, on social entrepreneurship, gives me a unique opportunity to engage. Votes: 0

Darren Walker
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Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent... Votes: 0

Napoleon Bonaparte
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When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world. Votes: 0

Jacqueline Novogratz
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We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny. Votes: 0

James K. Polk
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Wherever you go, in every country, on every continent, people yearn and hunger for one thing: to love and be loved. Votes: 0

Michael Jackson
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The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not? Votes: 0

Francis Parkman
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If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken. Votes: 0

Yanis Varoufakis
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The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance. Votes: 0

Gloria Steinem
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As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent. Votes: 0

Thabo Mbeki
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Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent. Votes: 0

Jeanette Winterson
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Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor. Votes: 0

Jamie Dimon
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We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity. Votes: 0

Arthur Erickson
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In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent . Votes: 0

Bill McKibben
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There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn't remove the fact that it is a continent. Votes: 0

Angelique Kidjo
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The sense of traveling this continent, also other continents. The friendship.I would say a non-competitive friendship. That is so amazing to me. Votes: 0

Anne Waldman
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Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched. Votes: 0

Barry Eichengreen
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New York [cannot] remain the center of commerce and capital for this continent, unless it has an independent bar and an honest judiciary. Votes: 0

Samuel J. Tilden
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The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress. Votes: 0

Peter Matthiessen
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On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent. Votes: 0

Robert Hughes
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There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent. Votes: 0

Mikhail Tukhachevsky
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A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent...sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country. Votes: 0

John Quincy Adams
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I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated. Votes: 0

John Dramani Mahama
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And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path. Votes: 0

John Dramani Mahama
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No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada. Votes: 0

Lyndon B. Johnson
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Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little. Votes: 0

Douglas Wilder
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Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent. Votes: 0

Richard Allen
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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. Votes: 0

Harold MacMillan
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Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west. Votes: 0

Angelique Kidjo
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Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent. Votes: 0

Van Wyck Brooks
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I remember traffic jams Motor boys and girls with tans Nearly was and almost rans I remember this, this ... At the edge of the continent Votes: 0

Michael Stipe
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To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly. Votes: 0

James D. Watson
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The Catholics of Maryland were the first people on the new continent to declare universal religious toleration. Let this be remembered to their eternal honor. Votes: 0

Robert Green Ingersoll
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Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage. Votes: 0

Walther Rathenau
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Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He's a living legend: an icon of independence and freedom across the continent. Votes: 0

Nicolas Maduro
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In general the 53 countries on the continent of Africa have made great progress towards freedom and democracy, and in terms of electing good, sound administrations. Votes: 0

Jimmy Carter
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On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest brutalities. Votes: 0

George Gilder
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The fate of the African continent does not f-ing depend on a load of f-ing musicians in Hyde Park singing f-ing s-t songs to kids. Votes: 0

Noel Gallagher
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Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would you do it? Votes: 0

Sam Worthington
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The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it. Votes: 0

Curt Sachs
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It's not attractive at the moment to vouch for the European idea. I still do it, because I believe nothing would be better for our continent. Votes: 0

Martin Schulz
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The first breath of air of Africa - it felt like you were in another continent - you were, you were - and it was different. Votes: 0

Romeo Dallaire
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Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk Votes: 0

John Ashcroft
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Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another continent. Votes: 0

Margot Fonteyn
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My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent, not just in Congo. Votes: 0

Dikembe Mutombo
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We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze. Votes: 0

Haruki Murakami
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Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk. Votes: 0

John Ashcroft
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Bringing more large sporting events to Africa would help the continent develop sports policies and at the same time optimize its peoples' chances of achieving competitive success. Votes: 0

Richard Attias
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Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and technical fields. Votes: 0

Julius Streicher
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I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union. Votes: 0

William S. Burroughs
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In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its population density, it makes sense. Votes: 0

Rosecrans Baldwin
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The United States was proud to stand with the people of Germany as this nation and this continent reunited and rebuilt and reached for a better future. Votes: 0

Barack Obama
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Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world and cultivate so many things. Votes: 0

Djimon Hounsou
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Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace. Votes: 0

Haile Selassie
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles. Votes: 0

Kabir Bedi
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When there's something or someone, when there's anything that makes you happy, you don't let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart Votes: 0

Dana Reinhardt
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I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them. Votes: 0

Ted Simon
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I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are through. Votes: 0

Derek Landy
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Our arguments - and those of hundreds more Venezuelans suffering the same injustice - are clear and forceful: political disqualification violates laws in Venezuela and throughout the continent. Votes: 0

Leopoldo Lopez
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Far from being hopeless, Africa is full of hope and potential, maybe more so than any other continent. The challenge is to ensure that its potential is utilised. Votes: 0

Mo Ibrahim
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She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent. Votes: 0

Anthony Marra
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While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can unite in a common objective and sustain common principles. Votes: 0

Franklin Pierce
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No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism. Votes: 0

Tony Abbott
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Aside your dreams to improve your community, country and continent, dare to save a soul for God. Show compassion, show love... Feed hungry souls and let God be glorified! Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor
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I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised. Votes: 0

Walter Salles
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On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream. Votes: 0

Barack Obama
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China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismembered or partitioned among the European powers that are colonizing the continent of Asia. Votes: 0

Jose Rizal
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Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete. Votes: 0

Matthew Parris
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I have had close relationships with three species of wild pigs, each a chance encounter on a different continent, and all continue to enrich my life in surprising ways. Votes: 0

Lyall Watson
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The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages. Votes: 0

Theodore Roosevelt
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Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent disappeared. Votes: 0

Jean-Luc Godard
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Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again? Votes: 0

Arundhati Roy
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…he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered. Votes: 0

Tom Robbins
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If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social. Votes: 0

William Weld
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Members of the Rae Chorze-Fwaz order trace their origins back through Tibet, Japan, China, India, and ancient Egypt to the place the order was founded, the lost continent of Atlantis. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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Europe is no longer a Christian continent; few Europeans attend religious services on Sunday, and the European Union recently refused to refer to Europe's religious heritage in its fledgling constitution. Votes: 0

Meir Soloveichik
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You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces. Votes: 0

Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. Votes: 0

Brian Tracy
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If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability _ economic, political and social. Votes: 0

William Weld
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Members of the Rae Chorze-Fwaz order trace their origins back through Tibet, Japan, China, India, and ancient Egypt to the place the order was founded, the lost continent of Atlantis. Votes: 0

Frederick Lenz
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The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them. Votes: 0

Freya Stark
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Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind ourselves what being a refugee means? Votes: 0

Scott Simon
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The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them. Votes: 0

Walter Salles
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The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It's an ocean surrounded by land, basically. Votes: 0

Sylvia Earle
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Our relationship with the European Union, which has done so much to promote stability, stimulate economic growth, and foster the spread of democratic values and ideals across the continent and beyond. Votes: 0

Barack Obama
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Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and the old world supplied them all. Votes: 0

Randolph Bedford
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The night before Atlantis sank beneath the waves forever, the members of the MysterySchool set sail from their doomed continent in twelve boats, headed for twelve different points on the globe. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined. Votes: 0

Terence McKenna
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Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest, the most care-free city on this continent. Votes: 0

Irvin S. Cobb
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America was founded on a genocide, on the unquestioned assumption of the right of white Europeans to exterminate a resident, technologically backward, colored population in order to take over the continent. Votes: 0

Susan Sontag
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Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people who built them will be gone. Votes: 0

Mark Steyn
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Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird. Votes: 0

Simon Newcomb
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George Kimble said, 'The only thing dark about Africa is our ignorance of it.' So let's start shedding light on this amazing eclectic continent that has so much to offer. Votes: 0

Euvin Naidoo
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The night before Atlantis sank beneath the waves forever, the members of the MysterySchool set sail from their doomed continent in twelve boats, headed for twelve different points on the globe. Votes: 0

Frederick Lenz
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You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent. Votes: 0

John Brough
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Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended Americas inalienable right to life, it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent. Votes: 0

Michael Moriarty
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[Africa] is the one continent where you still have a lot more young people than old people. So making sure they're healthy, good nutrition, good education. That'll be important for the world. Votes: 0

Bill Gates
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The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men. Votes: 0

James A. Baldwin
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Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict. Votes: 0

Daniel Barenboim
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She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer. Votes: 0

Carol Ann Duffy
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense. Votes: 0

Sam Shepard
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The countries that have collected the most development aid are also the ones that are in the worst shape. Despite the billions that have poured in to Africa, the continent remains poor. Votes: 0

James Shikwati
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The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms Votes: 0

Bruno Latour
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At independence Kenya's economic indicators were equal to those of South Korea, but 45 years down the road, Korea's economy is 40 times that of Kenya. The mediocrity of leadership is across the continent . Votes: 0

Raila Odinga
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The "European Union" happens to be composed of people who hate our guts. It is the continent where Moveon.org-style lunatics are the friendly, pro-American types and the rest are crazy Muslims. Votes: 0

Ann Coulter
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Doesn't matter what language you speak or what clothes you wear. Some things don't change. Families. Friends. Lovers. They're the same in every city in every country in every continent of the world. Votes: 0

Annabel Pitcher
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Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire. Votes: 0

George Will
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No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated. Votes: 0

Heinrich Boll
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When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore... fellows with imaginations broad enough to span the continent. Votes: 0

Jonathan Raban
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Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary. Votes: 0

Hamilton Wright Mabie
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The first day or so we all pointed to our country. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continent. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth. Votes: 0

Sultan bin Salman Al Saud
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Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended America's 'inalienable right to life,' it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent. Votes: 0

Michael Moriarty
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But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die. Votes: 0

James Young
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green. Votes: 0

Helena Blavatsky
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The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent. Votes: 0

Barbara Demick
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green. Votes: 0

H. P. Blavatsky
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A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent. Votes: 0

James F. Cooper
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You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.' Votes: 0

Wole Soyinka
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I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent. Votes: 0

Ozwald Boateng
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Your kids never really leave do they? They might live elsewhere, sometimes not even on the same continent, but Mum is always first port of call when there's trouble. Parenting is a lifetime commitment. Votes: 0

Cindy Vine
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There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades. Votes: 0

Muammar al-Gaddafi
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These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war. Votes: 0

Ronald Reagan
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I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody. Votes: 0

Larry Fitzgerald
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The world is in America. In Italy is only Italy. France is full of France. Germany is full of Germany. In a continent that contains the entire world, contradictions are, of course, constantly arising. Votes: 0

Sergio Leone
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With such wisdom has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought about without the renovation of the earth in the production of another. Votes: 0

James Hutton
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AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce
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One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present. Votes: 0

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. Votes: 0

Thomas Paine
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To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the way, for they find it in abundance wherever they chance to be. Votes: 0

John Muir
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The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade. Votes: 0

Ezra Stiles
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In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility. Votes: 0

Rebecca West
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I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off. Votes: 0

Djimon Hounsou
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After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom. Votes: 0

Wallace Stegner
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I am hopeful that Antarctica in its symbolic robe of white will shine forth as a continent of peace as nations working together there in the cause of science set an example of international cooperation. Votes: 0

Richard E. Byrd
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Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent. Votes: 0

Mohsin Hamid
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Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided Votes: 0

P. J. O'Rourke
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Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor. Votes: 0

John Woolman
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I'll make a general comment about this whole dependence on 'celebrities.' I object to this situation as it is right now, where they have inadvertently or manipulatively become the spokespeople for the African continent. Votes: 0

Dambisa Moyo
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I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of this great river [Ozama], and by this sea which is fresh.

Christopher Columbus
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It is not a problem. I had been nominated by my country Uganda and the African continent had endorsed me... No matter how much noise the frogs make, they cannot stop a cow from drinking water.

Sam Kutesa
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There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

Tim Winton
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We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.

Sigmund Freud
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The tomb of the Saviour was a narrow and empty vault, precious only for its memories of the supreme tragedy of the centuries, but the new continent was to be the home and temple of the living God.

Chauncey Depew
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.

Pema Chodron
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What we need are mental and spiritual giants who are aflame with a purpose . . . We're a race ready for crusade, for we've recognized that we're a race on this continent that can work out its own salvation.

Nannie Helen Burroughs
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When you leave Africa, as the plane lifts, you feel that more than leaving a continent you're leaving a state of mind. Whatever awaits you at the other end of your journey will be of a different order of existence.

Francesca Marciano
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Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes, we are authorized to regard them as part of the present order of Nature.

Charles Lyell
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It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit, so I would say feminism has been successful and we have a huge distance to go, huge.

Gloria Steinem
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I believe that we should take every opportunity to challenge the assumption that our European allies are doing us a favor whenever they provide us with the necessary facilities from which to defend their own continent.

Chester Bowles
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In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.

Adolf Hitler
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Germany will regard the Jewish question as solved only after the very last Jew has left the greater German living space... Europe will have its Jewish question solved only after the very last Jew has left the continent.

Alfred Rosenberg
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Canada and the United States have reached the point where we no longer think of each other as 'foreign' countries. We think of each other as friends, as peaceful and cooperative neighbors on a spacious and fruitful continent.

Harry S. Truman
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My collection of historical fashion consists of about 10,000 pieces - dresses and accessories, from 18th century to today. The main focus was initially Russian fashion, but now I have extended it to the whole European continent.

Alexander Vassiliev
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We of the United States consider ourselves blessed. We have much to give thanks for. But the gift of providence we cherish most is that we were given as our neighbors on this wonderful continent the people and the nation of Canada.

Lyndon B. Johnson
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Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.

Stephen Leacock
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A cathedral without windows, a face without eyes, a field without flowers, an alphabet without vowels, a continent without rivers, a night without stars, and a sky without a sun—these would not be so sad as a . . . soul without Christ.

Tad R. Callister
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[Africa] is a continent of many countries, not one country. If we are down to three or four conflicts, it means that there are plenty of opportunities to invest in stable, growing, exciting economies where there's plenty of opportunity.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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As an artist, it's a great opportunity to play a character like this [Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland]. And then, as a person, I had never been to the African continent. So, I knew, personally, it would reshape me.

Forest Whitaker
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It must be those brief moments when nothing has happened - nor is going to. Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean beyond the grey continent of our ordinary days. There, sometimes, you meet your own heart like someone you've never known.

Hans Børli
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Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we are wise enough to preserve it on this continent, be a stabilizing power as well as a spiritual reserve for the future.

Sigurd F. Olson
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I wanted to start by saying that the eurozone - there are two reasons they formed the European Union. One is for political peace and rationalization. And I think that's a good thing for a continent that went through hundreds of years of wars.

Jamie Dimon
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A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.

Victor Hugo
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Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and forms of government or control, than existed in an entire continent at an earlier epoch.

John Dewey
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I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are destroying the land. A magic continent, a Peculiar Treasure, stuffed with riches, millions in it are starving in the midst of plenty.

Edna Ferber
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America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because all those who came here believed they could create upon this continent a new life -- a life that should be new in freedom.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of and to build up the future continent, of golden and silver sands and the ruins of forests, with ant-like industry.

Henry David Thoreau
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What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost all connection to, and the nature of this lost world of the human mind is that it is a Gaian entelechy.

Terence McKenna
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Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its people... What [Africa] needs, the West cannot give. ...what Africans need is personal liberty...[and] guarantees of private property rights and rule of law.

Walter E. Williams
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For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia... Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained.

Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I am sure it would not be in the long-term interest of China, which would continue to depend on these African resources for a very long time, to see the emergence of any sense of hostility, animosity, tension between itself and the African continent.

Thabo Mbeki
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I think you try to extrapolate from the early civilizations and cultures of the continent, kind of looking for unique ways they set themselves apart from Western civilizations, and then pursue those avenues technologically and see where that takes you.

Joe Robert Cole
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Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is important that African countries wake up and pool whatever resources they have and jointly deal elements pulling our continent down a death blow.

Bernard Membe
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We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major mountain chains and rivers. There are still innumerable details to fill in, but the endless horizons no longer exist.

H. Bentley Glass
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While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.

Henry David Thoreau
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America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian continent will be of decisive importance to America's global primacy and to America's historical legacy.

Zbigniew Brzezinski
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There's another point that I wanted to mention here, particularly the engagement and commitment to Africa. For us Europeans, Africa as a neighboring continent is of prime importance. The development of African countries is in our very own bested interest.

Angela Merkel
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E.U. need to be nurtured and cultivated and protected and fought for because the achievements that we've seen on this continent, in contrast to a divided Europe of the previous century, are ones that remind us of how important it is that we work together.

Barack Obama
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It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun [Texas], and Mexico and Oregon also, and it will in the course of ages be of small import by what particular occasions and methods it was done.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Europe is my home, Europe is my continent. Europe is where we live. The European Union is a political bureaucratic organization that took away our identity and our national sovereignty. So, I would get rid of the European Union and be a nation-state again.

Geert Wilders
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Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine, Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine. Better be born with taste to little rent Than the dull monarch of a continent; Without this bounty which the gods bestow, Can Fortune make one favorite happy? No.

John Armstrong
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Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many bridges that connect the island of our soul with the great continent of common life. . . the broadest, perhaps, but in no way the most refined.

Rainer Maria Rilke
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It is believed that the average person uses no more than 10% of his or her potential. Ten percent! We’re not even scratching the surface of what we’re capable of. We are all blessed with a continent of unexplored gifts and talents. Use them, or lose them!

Clifton Anderson
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Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause.

Abraham Lincoln
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After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying - the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea

Ernest Shackleton
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The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.

Henry David Thoreau
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With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.

C. S. Lewis
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How can you have a world of today where India is not represented in the Security Council; Japan, the second contributor, is not there; the whole continent of Africa, soon to be 54 countries, don't have a single permanent seat; and Latin America is absent? It's not realistic.

Kofi Annan
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The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification, for the sake of convenience, can we say 'Africa'. In reality, except as a geographical appellation, Africa does not exist.

Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet . . . we may rightly call a New World . . . a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.

Amerigo Vespucci
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Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste of apocalypse. Nowhere is day more vivid or night darker. Nowhere are forests more luxuriant. Nowhere is there a continent more miserable

Lance Morrow
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Pre-season was very challenging with the African Championships on my continent. Unfortunately, I failed to qualify for the Games there. It was an emotional moment for me due to the context, but I quickly accepted the result as evidence of what my preparation has been the past 3 years.

Benjamin Boukpeti
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He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable genes who fled the crowded Old World for the new continent; it was the people who didn't get along well with others.

Jonathan Franzen
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China surely must be interested in a more stable, non-antagonistic relationship with the African continent precisely because of its own needs and therefore has to say: in our own interest, as China, it is necessary that we participate in the process of development of the African continent.

Thabo Mbeki
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As two proud and independent peoples, there is much that distinguishes us one from the other, but there is also much that we share: a vast continent, with its common hardships and uncommon duties; generations of mutual respect and support, and an abiding friendship that grows ever stronger.

Ronald Reagan
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Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent. Votes: 2 George Ayittey


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