Europe Quotes - Page 33

• In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.

  Norman Granz

  Switzerland, Moved, Decided

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• If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.

  Norman Granz

  Teenager, Looks, Audience

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• We have reason to believe that when, during the crusades, Europe at last began to establish hospitals, they were inspired by the Arabs of near East....The first hospital in Paris, Les Quinze-vingt, was founded by Louis IX after his return from the crusade 1254-1260.

  George Sarton

  Believe, Paris, East

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• You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone. Most great graphic artists come from areas with prevalent sun, where line and shadow are paramount.

  Al Hirschfeld

  Rain, Artist, Clouds

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• In Europe, Socialism is just another political party. It just means that government takes over certain things like hospitals, prisons, military and schools that should not be run for profit.

  Bill Maher

  Running, Military, Party

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• Workers are on the streets today with a clear message to Europe's leaders. There is a great danger that workers are going to pay the price for the reckless speculation that took place in financial markets.

  John Monks

  Pay The Price, Leader, Today

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• In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.

  Jesse Jackson

  America, Development, Way

  "Jesse Jackson: UK should apologise for slavery". www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2001.

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• It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the Americas and tortured and enslaved, raped, impoverished, and eradicated the peaceful, Christ-like people they found. And that the blueprint from which they worked, and still work, was the Bible.

  Alice Walker

  Wise, Ocean, Men

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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• There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Drug, World, Pay

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• Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread to our Europe, where some fanatics espoused it, where some intriguers pretended to be convinced by it and where some imbeciles actually believed it.

  Frederick The Great

  Imagination, Fiction, Imbeciles

  Attributed to Frederick II of Prussia in "Civilization: The West and the Rest", Book by Niall Ferguson, 2011.

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• A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  New York, Cities, Literature

  Jerzy Kosinski (2012). “Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller”, p.269, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege, but the abuse of it in this country is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of the press is a deep stain upon the character of the country; and in addition to the evil of calumniating good men and giving a wrong direction to public measures, it corrupts the people by rendering them insensible to the value of truth and of reputation.

  Noah Webster

  Christian, Country, Character

  "Letters".

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• The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.

  Noah Webster

  Christian, Government, Support

  Noah Webster (1835). “Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families”, p.232

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• I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

  Gavin Bryars

  Technology, Cds, Understanding

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the Italian army but by a microbe. A mysterious new disease spread through sex killed many of Charles’s soldiers and left survivors weak and disfigured. French soldiers spread the disease across much of Europe, and then it moved into Africa and Asia. Many called it the French disease. The French called it the Italian disease. Arabs called it the Christian disease. Today, it is called syphilis.

  Carl Zimmer

  Christian, Kings, Sex

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• Well, I first started going to Europe in the late '70s.

  Luther Allison

  Firsts, Late, Wells

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• Although it has been fashionable to deny it, anti-slavery doctrines began to appear in Christian theology soon after the decline of Rome and were accompanied by the eventual disappearance of slavery in all but the fringes of Christian Europe. When Europeans subsequently instituted slavery in the New World, they did so over strenuous papal opposition, a fact that was conveniently 'lost' from history until recently. Finally, the abolition of New World slavery was initiated and achieved by Christian activists.

  Rodney Stark

  Christian, Rome, Doctrine

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• Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state.

  Madeleine Albright

  Girl, America, States

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• Because God is perfect, his handiwork functions in accord with immutable principles. By the full use of our God-given powers of reason and observation, it ought to be possible to discover these principles.
  
  These were the crucial ideas that explain why science arose in Christian Europe and no where else.

  Rodney Stark

  Christian, Ideas, Perfect

  Rodney Stark (2007). “The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success”, p.23, Random House

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• If you have a guy like Jermaine, it's a pain in the neck. When we were on the road together in Europe, Jesus, I had to kick the girls off of him. I mean, they throw themselves on the floor and take off their hats.

  Pia Zadora

  Mean Girls, Jesus, Pain

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• I am not confident that Europe can make it.

  Ana Patricia Botin

  Inspiring, Economic

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• England is a very strong league, with three or four of the best teams in Europe, but, if I had played there, I would have destroyed it, like I have everywhere else.

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Football, Strong, Team

  "Zlatan Ibrahimovic: I'd have DESTROYED Premier League defences if I'd moved to England" by Dave Kidd, www.mirror.co.uk. February 23, 2014.

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• Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.

  Simone Weil

  Men, People, World

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• Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Yield, May, Want

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.54, editionNEXT.com

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• One has to be foolish or irredeemably stupid to believe that anything good can come to Europe from the land of presumed opportunity.

  Julius Streicher

  Stupid, Believe, Opportunity

  "Der Stürmer" Newspaper, 1944.

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