#continent

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#books #bunch #continental #crap #cycle

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#conflict #continent #contributed #deal #east

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'. ↗

— Elizabeth Bishop

#continents #countries #different #different countries #down

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#american #american literature #among #aspired #been

Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years? ↗

— Jared Diamond

#development #did #different #human #human development

Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#beyond #circle #continent #day #even

I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#another #being #better #continent #england

The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#african #against #aids #armed #caused

The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#continent #countries #ever #interests #more

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade. ↗

— Bono

#africa #around #brigade #cans #continent