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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself-out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me."

Men Europe Shapes
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David Bowie Musician, Actor
Europe

"We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971. That was the idea. And we wanted to just blast everything in the past, rather like the vorticists did at the beginning of the century in the Britain or the dadaists did Europe, you know. It was the same sensibility of everything is rubbish, and all rubbish is wonderful."

Thinking Past Europe
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Dylan Moran Comedian
Europe

"I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always good for giving me such a stir."

Giving Europe Eastern
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Rebecca West Novelist, Journalist
Europe

"In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility."

Mean Europe England And America
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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
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"In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color."

Color Europe Becoming
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Lech Walesa Politician, Activist
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"My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help."

Country May Europe
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Leon Trotsky Revolutionary, Politician
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"The Federated Republic of Europe-the United States of Europe-that is what must be. National autonomy no longer suffices. Economic evolution demands the abolition of national frontiers. If Europe is to remain split into national groups, then Imperialism will recommence its work. Only a Federated Republic of Europe can give peace to the world."

Giving Country Europe
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
Europe

"America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America."

Home Struggle Europe
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Milan Kundera Writer
Europe

"Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important than members of the European Parliament."

Important Europe Toil
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Carl Honore Author and Speaker
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"Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another."

Cities Europe Smell
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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
Europe

"It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?"

Real Europe Injustice And Oppression
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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian
Europe

"Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe."

Mean Reality Europe
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Aleister Crowley Occultist, Writer
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"But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people."

America Europe Oasis
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
Europe

"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."

Country America Europe
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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
Europe

"Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought."

Race Europe Roots
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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die."

Order Europe Anger
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