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Letter "E" » European
«World War I, that tiresome European engagement that threatened to close down French couture.»
Author: Caroline Seebohm
| About:
War
| Keywords:
close down, couture, engagement, engagements, European, threatened, tiresome, world war, World War I
«The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking»
Author: George Ade
(Journalist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
European, The Europeans, Three Weeks, trip, unpack, unpacking, weeks
«You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a wind-blown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
alleys, arguing, blown, cities, couple, Europe, European, intersection, map, Middle West, midwestern, practically, undisciplined, wandering, West, west wind
«When the war closed we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines - doctrines of paternalism and state socialism»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
War
| Keywords:
American System, diametrically, European, paternalism, Philosophy of, rugged individualism
«To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
European, European civilization
«Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
alcohol, European, narcotic, narcotics, The Europeans
«Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? It is our true policy to st»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
caprice, caprices, entangle, entangling, European, interweave, interweaving, toils
«True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is science but not its wrong application to life.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Freedom,
Science
| Keywords:
application, European, modernism, schoolmasters, tutelage
«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.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
applies, European, European civilization, prostitution, slavery, The Europeans, vanished
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