Continents Quotes - Page 15

• 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.

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Animal, Zimbabwe

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.35, Creators Publishing

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• It is important to remember when making jokes about women, that they are not a minority. They weren't captured on another continent and brought here in leg-irons (funny shoes, yes, but not leg-irons) and Hitler didn't blame them for Germany's loss in WWI. Therefore, you can make any kind of fun of them you want.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, Loss, Shoes

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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.

  Terence McKenna

  Hallucinogens, Reason, Plant

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• Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd go down to the Four Continents bookstore and he'd buy any Russian chess material he could get his hands on. He'd learned enough Russian to get the gist of prose and he just absorbed the chess part.

  Ronald Gross

  Kids, Hands, Chess

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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

  Kings, Character, Opportunity

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I have a trunk containing continents.

  Beryl Markham

  Trunks, Containing

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.273, Open Road Media

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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.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Heart, Europe, Germany

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• Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep alive in the Eastern as well as the Western half of our continent those ideas of human dignity which Europe gave to the world. Let us therefore resolve to keep the lamps of freedom burning bright so that all who look to the West from the shadows of the East need not doubt that we remain true to those human and spiritual values that lie at the heart of European civilization.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Spiritual, Lying, Heart

  Margaret Thatcher (1987). “In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986”

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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

  Wise, Spiritual, Character

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• More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.

  Mae West

  Fashion, Sex, Fun

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• We believe in a free Europe, not a standardised Europe. Diminish that variety within the member states, and you impoverish the whole Community. We insist that the institutions of the European Community are managed so that they increase the liberty of the individual throughout the continent. These institutions must not be permitted to dwindle into bureaucracy. Whenever they fail to enlarge freedom the institutions should be criticised and the balance restored.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Europe, Community

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a colossus shall we be when the southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it seem as a ralliance for the reason and freedom of the globe!

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Ignorance, Europe

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2014). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817”, p.285, Princeton University Press

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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 .

  Raila Odinga

  Korea, Years, Independence

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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.

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Sacrifice, Gentleman

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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

  Law, Rights, People

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• Thanksgiving is a holiday that brought together two different cultures. The pilgrims came here with the best intentions. They decided to flee an oppressive people and move to a new land. Where they thrived. And became an oppressive people. You get certain people on the same continent, there's going to be a problem. Pilgrims and Indians. Protestants, Catholics. My family, anybody else's family.

  Christopher Titus

  Moving, Holiday, Land

  "Titus / The Perfect Thanksgiving". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• Charles V used to say that "the more languages a man knew, he was so many more times a man." Each new form of human speech introduces one into a new world of thought and life. So in some degree is it in traversing other continents and mingling with other races. As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

  Roger Ascham

  Men, Race, Wings

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• I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.

  Saint Augustine

  Giving, Matter, Scripture

  Saint Augustine, F. J. Sheed (2007). “Confessions (Second Edition)”, p.110, Hackett Publishing

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• I considered the British as our natural enemies, and as the only nation on earth who wished us ill from the bottom of their souls. And I am satisfied that were our continent to be swallowed up by the ocean, Great Britain would be in a bonfire from one end to the other.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ocean, Soul, Enemy

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.323, Cambridge University Press

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• The Kumars... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea I was slightly surprised that no one else had.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Ideas, Five

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2007.

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• In Antarctica, it looks like the total volume (of ice) is increasing and if that's true, that's probably why you're getting increased ice moving away from the center of the continent and therefore these big icebergs and stuff are breaking off.

  Harrison Schmitt

  Moving, Ice, Looks

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• Cuba forces in Angola gave a real shot in the arm to the liberation movements, and it also was a lesson to the white South Africans that the end is coming. They can't just hope to subdue the continent on racist grounds.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, White, Cuba

  "Chomsky on Haiti". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.counterpunch.org. March 9, 2010.

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• Alike and ever alike, we are on all continents in the need of love, food, clothing, work, speech, worship, sleep, games, dancing, fun. From tropics to arctics humanity live with these needs so alike, so inexorably alike.

  Carl Sandburg

  Fun, Sleep, Games

  Carl Sandburg. (1954). “The Family of Man”

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• Ethnic differences exist; of course they exist on the African continent. They are not necessarily political differences, however. They don't necessarily cause people to kill each other. They become so-called 'tribalism' when they are politicized in a particular framework. And in post-independence Africa they have been politicized largely by sections of the so-called African elite.

  Walter Rodney

  Political Differences, People, Independence

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• South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime there. They were trying to protect Namibia, to protect apartheid, and nobody did much about it; but the Cubans sent forces, and furthermore they sent black soldiers and they defeated a white mercenary army, which not only rescued Angola but it sent a shock throughout the continent-it was a psychic shock-white mercenaries were purported to be invincible, and a black army defeated them and sent them back fleeing into South Africa.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fall, Army, Psychics

  "Chomsky on Haiti". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.counterpunch.org. March 9, 2010.

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