Continents Quotes - Page 18

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.

Richard E. Byrd

White, Hopeful, Shining

Statement made during International Geophysical Year (IGY) operations in 1957, inscribed on the Byrd Memorial at McMurdo Station, Antartica, 1957.

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All Americans (from the vast continent America) were, are, or will be border crossers.

Guillermo Gomez-Pena

America, Borders

Guillermo Gomez-Pena (1993). “Warrior for Gringostroika: Essays, Performance Texts, and Poetry”

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I’m a child of the universe, I have lived in almost all continents.

Micere Githae Mugo

Children, Universe

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Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.

Richard Attias

People, Development, Benefits

"Agriculture, and Africa’s Future" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.

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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.

Richard Attias

Sports, Events, Helping

"Africa’s Olympic Potential" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.

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The sea erupted. Often the sea and land changed places. The immobility of contours of continents and seas, a dogma in geology, has no basis in fact. And immediately there is the problem of the climate. There were ancient climates that were very different from what they are today. If those corals grew where they were found, certainly the Earth was not travelling with the same elements of rotation and revolution which means not in the same orbit, not with the axis directed in the same position as it is today. If you don't believe it, try to conservate corals on the North Pole.

Immanuel Velikovsky

Believe, Mean, Axes

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To me, it appears no unjust simile to compare the affairs of this great Continent to the mechanism of a clock, each state representing some one or other of the smaller parts of it which they are endeavoring to put in fine order without considering how useless & unavailing their labor is unless the great Wheel or Spring which is to set the whole in motion is also well attended to & kept in good order.

George Washington

Spring, Order, Useless

George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1779). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.301

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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.

Andrew Dickson White

Years, Russia, France

ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1910). “SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON”

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At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains a remote, lonely and desolate continent. A place where it's possible to see the splendours and immensities of the natural world at its most dramatic and, what's more, witness them almost exactly as they were, long, long before human beings ever arrived on the surface of this planet. Long may it remain so.

David Attenborough

Lonely, Long, People

"Life in the Freezer". Documentary, www.imdb.com. (1993 - ).

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Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia.This vast power, gathered into one, endeavored to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits, and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind.

Plato

Country, Blow, Men

Plato (2012). “Gorgias and Timaeus”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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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.

John Muir

Wild Beauty, Way, Chance

John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.722, Library of America

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I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life.

John Muir

Years, America, Hot

John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.872, The Mountaineers Books

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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

Believe, Opportunity, Challenges

"Contracting States: Sovereign Transfers in International Relations". Book by Alexander Cooley and Hendrik Spruyt, Princeton University Press, p. 100, "The Azores", White House Memorandum to President John F. Kennedy, Washington, DC (June 4, 1962), 2009.

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The transformation of part of the northern part of this continent into "America" inaugurated a nearly boundless epoch of opportunity and innovation, and thus deserves to be celebrated with great vim and gusto, with or without the participation of those who wish they had never been born.

Christopher Hitchens

Opportunity, America, Innovation

"Minority Report". The Nation, October 19, 1992.

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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.

Mark Steyn

Population, Fading, West

Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.33, Regnery Publishing

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Continents of memory had been lost.

Alan Lightman

Memories, Lost

Alan Lightman (2001). “The Diagnosis: A Novel”, p.21, Vintage

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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.

Ann Coulter

Hate, Crazy, People

"No Wonder They're Afraid Of Brit Hume" by Ann Coulter, www.anncoulter.com. May 2, 2007.

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Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.

William Dunbar

Morning, Men, Noble Man

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The world is now unipolar and contains only one superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. In this context, given our common values and the political, economic and security interests that we share with the United States, there is now no more important foreign policy interest for Canada than maintaining the ability to exercise effective influence in Washington so as to advance unique Canadian policy objectives.

Stephen Harper

Exercise, Unique, Political

"The New North Strong and Free". Canadian Alliance Defence Policy Paper, May 5, 2003.

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The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt.

Francis Parkman

Ambition, Circles, Achievement

Francis Parkman (1871). “Pioneers of France in the New World”, p.10

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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?

Francis Parkman

Issues, France, Reaching

Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. A half-century of conflict. Montcalm and Wolfe”, p.844, Library of America

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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

Europe, Space, Germany

"World Politics in Our Time". Book by David C. Jordan, p. 375, 1970.

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As a great socialist power the Soviet Union is fully aware of its responsibility to the peoples for preserving and strengthening peace. We are open to peaceful, mutually beneficial cooperation with states on all continents. We are for the peaceful settlement of all disputable international problems through serious, equal, and constructive talks.

Konstantin Chernenko

Responsibility, Peaceful, Unions

Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko, Viktor Pribytkov (1984). “Soviet-U.S. relations: the selected writings and speeches of Konstantin U. Chernenko”, Praeger Publishers

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I urge telecommunications regulators to develop a commercial strategy for delivering effective access to the continent.

Mark Shuttleworth

Strategy, Regulators, Delivering

"Shuttleworth Urges Telecoms Reform". tectonic.co.za. February 24, 2006.

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One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then lets the play deepen and deepen until it is a reality that few would even dare to entertain...The human imagination is the holographic organ of the human body, and we don't 'imagine' anything. We simply see things so far away that there is no possibility of validating or invalidating their existence.

Terence McKenna

Ocean, Reality, Play

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