Europe Quotes - Page 24

• European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.

  John Bruton

  Texas, Japan, Together

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• Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Japan, Usa, Osteoporosis

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• Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to them over several generations. We don’t really know, because the first atheistic societies have only emerged in Europe in the last few decades. They are the least efficient societies ever known at turning resources (of which they have a lot) into offspring (of which they have few).

  Jonathan Haidt

  Generations, Lasts, Firsts

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• I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.

  Sylvia Plath

  Gone, Lovers, Bell Jar

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.62, Hamilton Books

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• God will destroy America by the hands of the Muslims. God will not give Japan or Europe the honor of bringing down the United States; this is an honor God will bestow upon Muslims.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Japan, Hands, America

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• It's true that the war in Iraq opened a distance in relations between part of Europe and the U.S. government, but our basic ties are stronger than that. We share democracy, free markets and a commitment to Western security. We differ on how to guarantee that security.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Distance, War, Commitment

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• Baldness that appears to be normal is a disease in Europe, almost all of them are bald, and that is because of the things they eat; while among the indigenous peoples there are no bald people, because we eat other things.

  Evo Morales

  People, Disease, Normal

  Evo Morales' speech at the inauguration of conference on climate change in Cochabamba, Bolivia, April 20, 2010.

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• All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States.

  Peter Camejo

  Law, America, United States

  "Raw Data: Foxnews.com Interviews Peter Camejo". Foxnews.com Interview, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2004.

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• I can state that I created a ballet company of which everyone said: St. Petersburg has the greatest ballet in all Europe.

  Marius Petipa

  Ballet, States, Said

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• This is a sad day for all of us, and to none is it sadder than to me. Everything that I have worked for, everything that I have hoped for, everything that I have believed in during my public life, has crashed into ruins. There is only one thing left for me to do; that is, to devote what strength and powers I have to forwarding the victory of the cause for which we have to sacrifice so much... I trust I may live to see the day when Hitlerism has been destroyed and a liberated Europe has been re-established.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Sacrifice, Victory, May

  Neville Chamberlain's Speech in the House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. September 3, 1939.

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• We are resolved that the method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference, and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Country, Two, Differences

  Neville Chamberlain's "Peace For Our Time" Speech in front of 10 Downing St., eudocs.lib.byu.edu. September 30, 1938.

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• The hopes of Europe's six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked, 'Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?' I replied, 'No'....From the depths of the tragedy I want to save two million young people...The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They were dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world...Only the branch of the young shall survive...They have to accept it.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Fate, Dust, Two

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• What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is that atrocities against women and children are carried out in Europe. What matters is that governments and societies must stop hiding behind a hollow pretense of tolerance so that they can recognize and deal with the problem.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Children, What Matters, Rights

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

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• In America, I get a lot of younger kids, but there's teens and adults too, ... In Europe, for some reason, I see a lot more males in the audience. In Japan, I don't even notice any kids, partially because they're a lot more strict about fan behavior over there.

  Avril Lavigne

  Kids, Japan, America

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• Pop Art is industrial painting. I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it's what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won't be American; it will be universal.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Art, Thinking, World

  Roy Lichtenstein, John Caplans (1968). “Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition 6 Jan.-4 Feb. 1968, Tate Gallery, London ...”

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• The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world.

  Romain Rolland

  Our World, Soul, Together

  "Life of Ramakrishna". Book by Romain Rolland, 1929.

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• In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco.

  Andrew Weil

  Turkeys, Russia, Firsts

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• I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

  Marc Bolan

  Children, Blow, Thinking

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• Europe will get a stable and prosperous Turkey.

  Olli Rehn

  Turkeys, Stable, Prosperous

  "Sweet and sour climax to Turkey's long march" by Nicholas Watt, Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2005.

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• This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy. We are on the edge of total social breakdown. And frankly, as far as the euro is concerned and the austerity measures are concerned, the medicine is killing the patient.

  Nigel Farage

  Medicine, Democracy, Austerity

  "On the edge of social breakdown". UK Independence Party Website, May 31, 2012.

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• Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.

  Nigel Farage

  Law, Everyday, Sovereign

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• British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

  Nigel Farage

  Democracy, British, Abandon

  "Theresa May accused of lifting cat anecdote from Ukip leader" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.

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• Even though effective competition is the best tool to strengthen innovation and competitiveness in Europe, state aid can also play a very useful supporting role.

  Neelie Kroes

  Play, Competition, Innovation

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• France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Country, Sweden, Proud

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• Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of us but cannot at the same time demand us to increase our dues.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Demand, France, Increase

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