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Continents Quotes by John Playfair
- Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things that have resisted…
- Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials furnished…
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- Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there… — Annie Besant
- All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries… — Elizabeth Bishop
- Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a… — H. P. Blavatsky
- This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky. — James Agee
- Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all… — Bono
- The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the… — Bono
- Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless… — Italo Calvino
- People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity… — David Cameron
- After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of… — David Cameron
- What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of… — David Cameron
- From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. — Winston Churchill
- The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty… — Richard Lamm