Best Continents Wisdom
429 Continents quotes by 343 unique authors
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For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white; his…
— Kwame Nkrumah
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Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a better home for…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure…
— David R. Brower
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She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had…
— Anthony Marra
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While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised…
— George Mikes
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the…
— Pema Chodron
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The first priority will consist in restoring a sense of the acceptance of life as a gift from God. According to both Sacred Scripture and…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained; someone…
— Vivien Leigh
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Africa is one continent, one people and one nation
— Kwame Nkrumah
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These proceedings may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in a little time…
— Thomas Paine
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The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue, and humanity as…
— Juan Gines de Sepulveda
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America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.
— Ezra Pound
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On Father's Day, we pay tribute to all in our society who have taken on the responsibilitie s and joys of fatherhood. Whether our fathers…
— Ronald Reagan
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Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.
— Billy Graham
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Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.
— Loren Eiseley
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The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our…
— Joseph Hume
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Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent.
— Richard Allen
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There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent…
— Tim Winton
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What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost…
— Terence McKenna
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In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
— Joseph Conrad
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To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.
— Brian Tracy
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Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another…
— Margot Fonteyn
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Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many…
— Khalil Gibran
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It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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