This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in… — William Labov Copy Share Image
Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The Eurozone has clearly gone spectacularly wrong, pulling down all the continental economies. — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
The plumbing and pluvial dynamics of the Amazon, the largest freshwater system on Earth, are still far from understood. This is partly… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Ginny's Little Longhorn is my favorite place to play and hang because it's close to old school beer joint music venue as… — Dale Watson Copy Share Image
The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies. — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
On the Glass-Steagall thing, like I said, if you could demonstrate to me that it was a mistake, I'd be glad to… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the vessels of… — Alexander Agassiz Copy Share Image
Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that… — Roger Milla Copy Share Image
A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
I don't want to predict calamity. But I am afraid of a new Russian occupation of parts of Eastern Europe. Also of… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
From the 15th century to 1688, England and Wales, like Scotland, had been peripheral kingdoms in the European power game, more often… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
