#european

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere. ↗

— William Dean Howells

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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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A war between Europeans is a civil war. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#civil #civil war #europeans #war

We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#character #dam #either #europe #european

And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily. ↗

— Giovanni Agnelli

#european #european countries #general #had #heavily

The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#added #areas #arts #considered #country

So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#advanced #american #american indians #creating #different

I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies - smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

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The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility. ↗

— Jacques Delors

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