Continents Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Philosophy, Rights

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• I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."

  Jon Weisman

  Real, Writing, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My work often begins as little internal dares, wondering if I can pull something off. So I spent a few years drawing these stories together, trying to build a Pangea of what began as separate continents.

  Anthony Marra

  Drawing, Years, Together

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Thinking, Usa, China

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The continent is incredibly exciting. When I first went there, it consumed me, and I instantly felt like I wanted to be engaged one way or the other, whether on a philanthropic level or business. I'm lucky to say today that I do both. In terms of African Wildlife Foundation, I started working with them roughly around 2009, on the ambassador level. Then I joined the board and was exposed to deeper issues that the Foundation was combating on the continent.

  Veronika Varekova

  Issues, Today, Way

  "African Wildlife Foundation, Veronica Varekova and Patrick Bergin". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We did a campaign here with New York Times. We had a great ad: "Today in America, someone will kill an elephant for a bracelet." We became sensitized in our society. Now there are four or five billion people in Asia who need to get this message. We need to use social media, print magazines, celebrities - anything we can to share this message. It's not cool, it's not okay. You are destroying beautiful animals. You are robbing a continent of its wealth. And you are hurting a lot of innocent people.

  Patrick Bergin

  Beautiful, Hurt, New York

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• You can fit two United States and maybe a third one into the entire continent of Africa, but on a map we make the entire continent of Africa look like the size of the United States, which is why a lot of people don't know that Africa is a continent. They think it's a country because it looks as big as we do.

  Baron Vaughn

  Country, Thinking, Two

  "Baron Vaughn on getting stabbed and becoming Tom Servo". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 19, 2016.

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• And now South Africa has finally woken up and it is doing great things. And if South Africa becomes the template to what AIDS is in the sub-Saharan continent, then all the other countries are going to follow suit. And Michel Sidibe, who spoke at the breakfast meeting this morning, was saying that there is so much hope for Africa now that South Africa has got its house in order.

  Elton John

  Country, Morning, Order

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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• If you think of every single continent there is, on every continent, there is something, a natural resource that every continent has, or sources, that they can really survive with that, or they can trade with that. But a lot of the developed nations have taken those things from those places and have claimed it and, therefore, they're dependent on those other nations.

  Stevie Wonder

  Taken, Thinking, Natural

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My parents don't think about Europe at all. The Continent is somewhere else. And they call it the Continent - to reflect, they are no real part of it.

  John Gimlette

  Real, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• If you see what passes as the news on the networks in the United States, there's virtually no coverage of the rest of the world, not even of neighboring countries like Mexico or neighboring continents like Latin America.

  Tariq Ali

  Country, Latin, America

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• The Internet has been an invaluable acquisition. I wonder how we would do without it. Information can be sent from one country to the other within the space of minutes, crossing channels, crossing oceans, crossing continents. But still, we can't compete with the might and power and wealth of those who dominate, control, and own the means of the production of information today.

  Tariq Ali

  Country, Ocean, Mean

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• The Americas has been a relatively stable continent. The last truly new border we have is Panama in 1903.

  Juan Enriquez

  Borders, Lasts, Panama

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.

  Lionel Barber

  Europe, Play, Historical

  "The Consequences Of The Brexit Referendum". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 11, 2016.

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• Read a textbook. It will tell you. These are the things for instance on the African continent that will contribute to immune deficiency, various tropical diseases because of poor infrastructure, general levels of poverty don’t get treated. Syphilis untreated or not properly treated, which as it happens is a big problem as I hear, gets treated, the symptoms disappear but in fact… it … that impacts on the immune system. You’ve got to deal with these things.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Impact, Syphilis, Poverty

  Interview with Lionel Barber, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

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• The only continent with a growth rate lower than Europe is Antarctica.

  Gisela Stuart

  Europe, Growth, Rate

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Our relationship with the European Union, which has done so much to promote stability, stimulate economic growth, and foster the spread of democratic values and ideals across the continent and beyond.

  Barack Obama

  Growth, Done, Unions

  "Obama: 'Special relationship is enduring'". www.telegraph.co.uk. June 25, 2016.

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• People have been tolerating their insane political system, in exchange for the countless privileges they are getting from their countries' plundering of the planet, and violating entire nations and continents. But in Africa, Asia and elsewhere, those "un-people" have no choice at all.

  Andre Vltchek

  Country, People, Choices

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Over the years, Britain has made her own, unique contribution to Europe. We have provided a haven to those fleeing tyranny and persecution. And in Europe's darkest hour, we helped keep the flame of liberty alight. Across the continent, in silent cemeteries, lie the hundreds of thousands of British servicemen who gave their lives for Europe's freedom.

  David Cameron

  Lying, Unique, Years

  "The Danger Is that Europe Will Fail". David Cameron Speech on the Future of Europe, www.spiegel.de. January 23, 2013.

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