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title: "7 Modern Europe Quotes by 7 authors"
description: "Browse 7 Modern Europe quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Modern Europe sayings and thoughts."
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> [Only teams with style succeed. But, in the end, success is normally what matters in modern Europe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-villas-boas/only-teams-with-style-succeed-but-in-the-end-success-is-normally-what/)

[Andre Villas-Boas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-villas-boas/)

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> [It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-benda/it-may-be-said-that-modern-europe-with-teachers-who-inform-it-that/)

[Julien Benda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-benda/)

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> [Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-clark/let-s-not-forget-what-the-origin-of-the-problem-is-there-is-no-place/)

[Wesley Clark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-clark/)

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> [The European Union Treaty... within a few years will lead to the creation of what the founding fathers of modern Europe dreamed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helmut-kohl/the-european-union-treaty-within-a-few-years-will-lead-to-the/)

[Helmut Kohl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helmut-kohl/)

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> [It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-a-murray/it-was-the-transmutation-of-the-classical-liberal-intellectual/)

[Charles A. Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-a-murray/)

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> [It is religion which has made modern Europe what she is by its stability amid the ruin of nations, by adapting itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-henri-lacordaire/it-is-religion-which-has-made-modern-europe-what-she-is-by-its/)

[Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baptiste-henri-lacordaire/)

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> [“I have spent considerable of my leisure time in this past year in the improvement of my mind but I find that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cheever/i-have-spent-considerable-of-my-leisure-time-in-this-past-year-in-the/)

[John Cheever](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cheever/)

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