#rope

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american tradition #belongs #brown #europe #i

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#awe #deprived #discourage #ensue #horrid

Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#europeans #how #idea #life #most

It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal. ↗

— Saskya Pandita

#digested #doubtful #enemy #first #friend

I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#european #extraordinary #facts #greece #help

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#biggest #both #dedicated #economic #economic policy

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#deeper #europe #favour #i #i am

Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#been #begin #defect #did #euro

As a woman, I have an inherent need to be all things to all people, to make certain everybody's taken care of. I know I can't sustain that level all the time, so I'm finding the proper balance and it's made me infinitely happier. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#balance #care #certain #everybody #finding

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#became #been #europeans #had #known