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Letter "E" » European
«San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
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All American, cities, European, Francisco, San, San Francisco
«The European Union and Russia have an identical viewpoint. We have condemned any potential revision of the ABM treaty, believing that such a revision will involve a risk of proliferation that will be very dangerous for the future.»
Author: Jacques Chirac
| About:
Country
| Keywords:
ABM, European, European Union, identical, involve, proliferation, revision, revisions, Russia, The European, Treaties, treaty, viewpoint, viewpoints
«Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.»
«The American backwoodsman -- clad in his hunting shirt, the product of his domestic industry, and fighting for the country he loves, he is more than a match for the vile but splendid mercenary of a European despot.»
«Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.»
Author: Arthur Koestler
| Keywords:
civilizations, cursed, cursed with, European, European civilization, heritage, mathematical, occurred, Pythagorean, Twenty Five
«The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
| Keywords:
adultery, aura, clings, European, itch, New England, penalty, polygamy, serial, theocratic, The European, The Problem of the
«The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
characterization, European, footnote, footnotes, philosophical, Plato, safest, The European, tradition
«There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.»
Author: Umberto Eco
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
American history, celebrated, copy, dominates, duplication, European, full-scale, infrequently, in full, Philosophy of, preserved, scale, The European
«The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
All American, always, American, becoming, being, European, even, For the, future, futures, goals, him, His, lives, More, The American, The European, The Europeans, The future
«The trouble is that racial stereotypes, unfavourable to everyone but white men of northwest European extraction, were completely accepted, and indeed, scarcely noted in those days of only forty years ago [the 1930s] (except perhaps by the members of the groups victimized thereby).»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Racism
| Keywords:
European, extraction, Northwest, noted, racial, stereotypes, the Northwest, unfavourable, victimized, victimizing
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