Quotes About Europe
The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe.
~ Noam Chomsky
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I can't tell you what it's like to be in Europe, for example, to be talking about the greatness of America. But the true greatness of America are the people.
~ George W. Bush
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My boyfriend is named Percocet, " I say. "We're very close. I even went to Europe with him last summer.
~ E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
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Just the way in Europe, Paris, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, and Frankfurt, possibly and Berlin, certainly, all had important roles, because of independence. Because they were depending on themselves.
~ Jane Jacobs
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Every country has its own diplomacy. Being part of Europe doesn't mean giving up one's independence or no longer being able to take the initiative.
~ Emmanuel Macron
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Anglo-Saxon and Irish saints and scholars played a vital role in the conversion of Europe, especially during the seventh and eighth centuries, and through them insular art influenced the work of early continental illuminators.
~ Janet Backhouse
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Anglo-Saxon England had the richest tradition of written vernacular literature of any country in Europe, including a large body of original poetry and many translations of earlier Latin works.
~ Janet Backhouse
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The term International Gothic is applied to the arts in the early fifteenth century because there was so general an exchange of influences throughout Europe.
~ Janet Backhouse
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This world extends beyond this room, Adele. There are the streets of Vienna and beyond that Europe and beyond that a globe in space in orbit around a star in a universe. But how do I know that for sure? I cannot see the globe spinning on its axis right now as I speak to you. How can I be sure? I can be sure because it's logical; the mathematics is sound and respected by the orbits of the planets. I can verify it's true, not by looking at it, but by thinking about it.
~ Janna Levin
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In short, Europe's colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was due to accidents of geography and biogeography—in particular, to the continents' different areas, axes, and suites of wild plant and animal species. That is, the different historical trajectories of Africa and Europe stem ultimately from differences in real estate.
~ Jared Diamond
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Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases.
~ Jared Diamond
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The men who had been sent to terrify Europe made a simple discovery: it was easier—and far less dangerous—to terrorize at home.
~ Jason Goodwin
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L'America non l'attirava, essendo un continente privo di Medioevo e Rinascimento.
~ Javier Marías
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The Age of Chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more, shall we behold the generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone!
~ Edmund Burke
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
~ Edmund Burke
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The Age of Chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
~ Edmund Burke
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The great work of Gibbon is indispensable to the student of history. The literature of Europe offers no substitute for The
~ Edward Gibbon
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Spain, the western extremity of the empire, of Europe, and of the ancient world, has, in every age, invariably preserved the same natural limits; the Pyrenaean Mountains, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic Ocean. That great peninsula, at present so unequally divided between two sovereigns, was distributed by Augustus into three provinces, Lusitania, Baetica, and Tarraconensis.
~ Edward Gibbon
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The great work of Gibbon is indispensable to the student of history. The literature of Europe offers no substitute for "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
~ Edward Gibbon
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In the seventh century the Arabs created a new world into which other peoples were drawn. In the nineteenth and twentieth, they were themselves drawn into a new world created in western Europe.
~ Albert Hourani
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goods—sugar, tobacco, rice, and indigo, a purple dye—to sell in Europe.
~ Albert Marrin
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Internal documents from the European Medicines Agency, which regulates drugs and vaccines across Europe, show the pressure that the EMA and FDA faced to approve the vaccines quickly.
~ Alex Berenson
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What they don´t tell you about Europe is how completely lame it is.
~ Alex Flinn
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I could not possibly have been placed in circumstances more highly favorable for study and exploration than those which I now enjoy. I am free from the distractions constantly arising in civilized life from social claims. Nature offers unceasingly the most novel and fascinating objects for learning. The only drawbacks to this solitude are the want of information on the progress of scientific discovery in Europe and the lack of all the advantages arising from an interchange of ideas.
~ Alexander Humboldt
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