North America Quotes - Page 7

• Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America.

  Dave Barry

  Painful Death, America, Causes

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• About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small protuberance jutted out from the northwest corner of what would later become North America.

  James A. Michener

  Ocean, Years, America

  James A. Michener (1993). “Two complete novels”, Outlet

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• The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s.

  Jared Diamond

  America, Chicago, Steel

  Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.131, Penguin

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• The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don't think there's anything like it in North America.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Thinking, America, Masterpiece

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• If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would look strikingly similar to the pop Christianity that has taken over the airwaves of North America.

  Tony Campolo

  Jesus, Taken, America

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• If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North America would have established strong native states capable of adopting European war tactics and maintaining their independence to this day, as Japan kept her independence from China.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Strong, War, Discovery

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet

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• Much of the big media outlets in North America are owned by arms manufacturers, like Westinghouse, or G.E. [General Electric]. That's unacceptable. So we're not getting editorial policy, we're not getting a vision of truth. People just don't know what is going on anymore, and that's really dangerous stuff.

  Denis Halliday

  Media, America, People

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• Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Christian, Country, Men

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• What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, or Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.

  Dave Barry

  War, Humorous, Painful Death

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• In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.

  Karl Marx

  Independent, White, America

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.329, Cosimo, Inc.

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• South America had been an island continent, far bigger and far more diverse than Australia, for tens of millions of years before the Isthmus of Panama rose just a couple of million years ago. The resulting flood of North American mammals across the new land bridge corresponds in time with the decimation of the native South American fauna. In fact, most large mammals generally considered distinctly South American... are all recent migrants from North America.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Couple, Years, Land

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• Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Fun, War, Thinking

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• Unless legal and illegal immigration is halted and reversed, European First World nations across all of Europe from Spain to Russia, North America, Australia and New Zealand - will be destroyed and have their very culture and civilisation changed to that of the Third World. Immigration is now the single most important issue facing all First World nations, and will determine whether Western Civilisation continues to exist or not.

  Arthur Kemp

  Russia, Europe, America

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• Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Inspiration, Europe, Civilization

  "Reasoned Proposal to the Central Committee of the League for Peace and Freedom" also known as "Federalism, Socialism, Anti-Theologism" by Mikhail Bakunin, September 1867.

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• Of course, fairies are all imported in North America. We have no native fairies. The Little People do not long survive importation unless they go to California and grow large and beautiful, but haven't much flavour, like the fruit and the film stars.

  Robertson Davies

  Beautiful, Stars, California

  Robertson Davies (1999). “Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre”, Penguin Group USA

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• If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.

  Janet Campbell Hale

  Country, Italian, America

  Janet Campbell Hale (1998). “Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter”, p.20, University of Arizona Press

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• I own a Ferrari race team, and we race all over North America.

  Robert Herjavec

  Team, America, Race

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• Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.

  Reza Aslan

  Islamic, Years, Europe

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• As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper Yellowstone and the like afford the greatest natural shows, I am not so sure but the prairies and plains, while less stunning at first sight, last longer, fill the esthetic sense fuller, precede all the rest, and make North America's characteristic landscape.

  Walt Whitman

  Fall, America, Yellowstone

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.150, Courier Corporation

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• We had very good discussions on current security challenges and NATO's continued adaptation to meet them. Canada is a committed ally and a capable contributor to international security. We appreciate your quick decision to deploy forces, planes and ships to strengthen our collective defence in view of Russia's aggressive actions in Ukraine, as well as your contribution to the international anti-ISIL coalition. Canada plays a major part in our decision-making and helps keep the vital bond between Europe and North America strong.

  Jens Stoltenberg

  Strong, America, Ukraine

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• Most independent filmmakers in Britain and North America work for commercial crews and then have their own projects when they've got enough money saved up to do so.

  Ann Macbeth

  Independent, America, Enough

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• Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hunting, America, Gentleman

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”

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• If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes, I'll give you 1,200 bucks for it.

  Jack Tretton

  America, Giving, Bucks

  "CE-Oh no he didn't! Part XXIV - Jack Tretton wants to give you $1,200" by Paul Miller, www.engadget.com. February 9, 2007.

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• In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.

  Michael Steinhardt

  Ignorance, America, People

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• Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.

  Muhammad Ali

  Country, Men, White Man

  "Playboy Interview: Muhammad Ali (Second Interview, 1975)". Interview with Lawrence Linderman, genius.com. November 1, 1975.

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