"Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe."
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"All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion."
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"A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy."
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"In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior."
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"Chuchill has renounced all British interests in Europe and those of his people who are not blind now realise that the pretext for this war was far removed from the cause of it, namely, the subservience of the so-called democratic politicians to their Jewish masters."
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"When I am in New York, I want to be in Europe, and when I am in Europe, I want to be in New York."
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"In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty ."
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"Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies."
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"The EU is an alliance that the Americans control, in which the EU of course has a great deal of autonomy, but in which it still is very dependent on the United States, especially militarily, but not only in that respect. So to blame the Germans for everything is an easy way out for some of those suffering in Europe today."
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"The European Union is a union of the extreme center. It's a banker's union. You see how they operate in country after country, appointing technocrats to take over and run countries for long periods. They did it in Greece; they did it in Italy; they considered it in other parts of Europe."
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"It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No."
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"If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such manner as that we could, at leisure, and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman, and no lady; for, although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage, in the particulars, we should detect offence. Because, elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth."
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"Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond."
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"Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true."
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"We go to Europe to be Americanized."
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"In a way Poe was a big influence for Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. I think he really did influence many artist of the time like Baudelaire, who was a big fan of Poe, and who was the one that brought attention to Poe's work in Europe."
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"Europe were kind of the first ones to embrace my music; the kids from around the way would come out to my shows and really enjoy it."
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"I believe a strong NATO has been the bulwark of our defence in Europe. Obviously that's important in the UK national interest and I believe it's important in the US national interest"
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"There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America."
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"War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be a better instrument for obliging the interested nations of Europe to treat us with justice."
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