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“Think of other foods, other meals. The most complicated menu planning I can think of, my truly desperate resort. The imaginary dinner party I've always wanted to throw, the seven-course "Continental Cuisine" menu, with a dish for each continent. One, the amuse-bouche, ceviche of scallops and shrimp, with the leche de tigre served alongside in a tall shot glass, to wake the appetite. Two, a Moroccan soup, lentils, rich with cardamom and cumin and pepper. Three, the fish course, miso-glazed cod. Four, a white, barely lemon-tinted sorbet, representing Antarctica, because who cooks penguin? Five, Australian lamb, from Paula Wolfert's seven-hour-lamb recipe, so tender it melts in the mouth like butter instead of meat. Six, a small triangle of classically American apple pie, the crust enriched with white cheddar from Vermont. Seven, three European cheeses: tangy Manchego with membrillo, creamy asked Morbier with red pepper honey, sweet Gorgonzola Dolce on-”

Courses Seven Food For Thought Meals Cuisine Continental Ginny Selvaggio

Book:The Kitchen Daughter

Source: The Kitchen Daughter

“She affected a faux Continental accent for good measure—it was the fashion voice. Women of a certain age in the industry all had it. Somehow, going to Paris four times a year meant they’d “studied” abroad.”

Humor Fashion Industry Continental Accent

Book:#FashionVictim

Source: #FashionVictim

“This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.”

Way Different America Share Standards African American Vocabulary Grammar North America Dialect Continental Vernacular Standard English

Author:William Labov

“My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.”

Author:Giorgio Moroder

“I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground.”

Feels Enough Facts Pay Attention Reactions Pay Attention Guts Refusal Modernism Smack Continental Forensics

Author:Will Self

“Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checked - not least by his own party, which set a continental precedent by ousting Thabo Mbeki in 2007, after it felt he had outstayed his welcome by seeking a third term as party president. The ANC appears to have set itself against that deathtrap of African democracy: the ruler for life.”

Ifs Would Be Felt President Term Party Democracy Thirds Seeking Welcome Impulse Rulers Precedent Continental Mugabe Zuma

Author:Mark Gevisser

“You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter, and you still won't reverse the fact that our oil production is in permanent decline. We're just sopping up what's left, digging ourselves into a deeper hole.”

Stills Matter Facts America Energy Left Productions Deeper Oil Holes Alternatives Hills Permanent Decline Refuge Reverse Shelves Wildlife Digging Drills Arctic Continental Oil Production

Author:Roscoe Bartlett

“To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.”

“In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer.”

Said America Political Enjoy Pleasure Offers Intellectual Europe Capacity Sensual Stability Infantile Continental Sensual Pleasure

Book:It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

“What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. This is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Law, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his laboring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer.”

Ifs Knows Men Would Be Law Work Cases Example Periods Labor Slavery Sells Slave Lifetime Fixed Temporary Capitalist Maximum Employers Lifelong Working Man Continental English Law

Book:German socialist philosophy

Source: German socialist philosophy

“Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.”

Years Firsts Made Europe Built Function Management Institutions Structure Financial Made It Germany Continental Financial Institutions Top Management

Author:Peter Drucker

“England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a number of ingenious and inventive men, without apparent relation to each other, arose in various parts of the kingdom, succeeded in giving an immense impulse to all the branches of the national industry; the result of which has been a harvest of wealth and prosperity, perhaps without a parallel in the history of the world.”

“This is where the Continental Congress met over two hundred years ago during the American Revolution. So, Lancaster was actually the capital of our nation for one day in 1977.”

Years Two Nations Revolution Mets One Day Hundred Years Ago Congress American Revolution Continental Lancaster

Author:Dan Quayle

“Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all costs be overcome. Nihilism in its most palpable sense means that the bourgeois has won, that the future, all foreseeable futures, belong to him, that all heights above him and all depths beneath him are illusory and that life is not worth living on these terms.”

“Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army.”

Mean Littles Life Is Pay Demand Disease Army Add Soldier Dear Articles Soap Allowance Continental Dirtiness

Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

“My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays in various Continental states France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia where the study of Continental statesmen has been almost forced upon me.”

Years Has Beens States Study Duty Various Russia France Germany Continents Statesmen Continental Netherlands

Book:SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON

Source: SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON

“As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian drifter [a supporter of the theory of continental drift]. Today my own students would dismiss with even more derision anyone who denied the evident truth of continental drift - a prophetic madman is at least amusing; a superannuated fuddy-duddy is merely pitiful.”

“Our advertising partnership with Allegiant Air is a natural fit for us. Branding encompasses everything from good customer service to strategic advertising positioning and targeting. This in-air branding exercise will allow us to target a specific player demographic, while continuing to expand the presence of our brand throughout the continental United States.”

States Natural United United States Player Air Fit Exercise Customers Advertising Brands Target Partnership Branding Continuing Strategic Demographics Continental Good Customer Service

Author:Calvin Ayre

“The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies.”

States Dangerous Army International Continental

Book:The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

“Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal antireligionism which animated so much of nineteenth-century Continental liberalism. ... What distinguishes the liberal from the conservative here is that, however profound his own spiritual beliefs, he will never regard himself as entitled to impose them on others and that for him the spiritual and the temporal are different sphere which ought not to be confused.”

“From the 15th century to 1688, England and Wales, like Scotland, had been peripheral kingdoms in the European power game, more often at war with each other that with Continental powers, and - except under Oliver Cromwell - scarcely very successful on those occasions when they did engage the Dutch, or the French, or the Spanish.”

War Games Successful Century England Kingdoms Occasions Scotland Dutch Wales British History Continental Cromwell

Book:Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837

Source: Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837

“In virtually every Continental state at this time, aristocracies had to live with the risk that their property might be pillaged or confiscated. Only in Great Britain did it prove possible to float the idea that aristocratic property was in some magical and strictly intangible way the people's property also. The fact that hundreds of thousands of men and women today are willing to accept that privately owned country houses and their contents are part of Britain's national heritage is one more proof of how successfully the British elite reconstructed its cultural image in an age of revolution.”

Source: Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837

“Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'”

Sometimes Asks Games Bits Watches Television Football Managers Soccer Bored Intensity Chairman Continental

Author:Arsene Wenger

“The forces are different up here at the continental divide. The magnetic lines of energy run in specific directions. The United States is divided into power zones. The Divide itself is the point where the energy meets.”

Different States Running Energy Force Lines United United States Buddhism Zone Divided Divides Magnetic Continental

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I am at the Continental Divide with the astral beings. They're most beautiful. They're most luminous. They have many shapes and sometimes their shape changes constantly, All kinds of colors.”

Kind Sometimes Beautiful Color Buddhism Shapes All Kinds Divides Luminous Continental

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going.”

Years States Eye Lasts United Millions United States Gone Percent Size Disappear Ice Caps Gore Continental

Author:Al Gore

“Throughout history, every government that's printed money, the money has eventually gone to its ultimate value which is zero. Remember? The confederate dollar went to zero. The continental went to zero. That's what happens when you have a bank that's allowed to print as much money as it wants to.”

Want Government Happens Remember Values Gone Ultimate Dollars Print Zero Printed Confederate Continental

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A.G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come.”

Thinking Should Poetry Poet Honestly Honour Favourite Generalities Continental Shopkeepers

Book:The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

“We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular taxonomy.”

Two Answers Development Thanks Continental Taxonomy

Book:Why Evolution Is True

Source: Why Evolution Is True

“We want to see oil and gas regulations on a continental basis given the integrated nature of this industry, with the current conditions in the oil and gas sector, this government will not consider unilateral regulation.”

Want Government Given Nature Conditions Industry Bases Currents Oil Gas Regulation Integrated Continental Oil And Gas

Author:Stephen Harper

“Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.”

Made Would Be Economy Food Materials Cooking Culinary Dishes Poorest Discarded Extravagance Cookery Tramps Tasty Continental Good Cook Whitechapel

Book:In Darkest England and the Way Out

Source: In Darkest England and the Way Out

“We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup.”

People Feels America Ocean Lakes Chickens Swim Swimming Soup Continental Chicken Soup Great Lakes

Book:A Man Without a Country

Source: A Man Without a Country

“During the darkest days of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress and George Washington - I call him the first George W. - (laughter and applause) - urged citizens to pray and to give thanks and to ask for God's protection.”

Giving Firsts War Asks Praying Citizens Laughter Congress Protection Thanks Revolutionary Applause Revolutionary War Continental

Author:James Monroe

“The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.”

Firsts States Challenges United United States Majors Continental

Author:Lawrence Summers

“Moreover, for decades we have been prone to far greater swings in the economic cycle than our continental counterparts. It has been boom and bust....Under this Government, there is an entirely new framework for economic management in place.”

Has Beens Government Greater Economic Management Decades Cycles Swings Framework Counterparts Continental

Author:Tony Blair

“The First Continental Congress made its first act a prayer, the beginning of a great tradition. We have then a lesson from the founders of our land. That lesson is clear: That in the winning of freedom and in the living of life, the first step is prayer.”

Firsts Made Winning Prayer Steps Clear Land Lessons Tradition Congress First Steps Founders Continental

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.”

Long Battle Argument Independence Congress Chains Conventions Declaration Declaration Of Independence Continental

Author:Samuel Adams

“Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood”

Long Memories Blood Shadow Lays Landscape Grandmother Immense Interiors My Grandmother Long Life Rainy Continental

Book:The Way to Rainy Mountain

Source: The Way to Rainy Mountain

“The Barcelona youth program is one of the best in the world. At the age of just 27, he is already their record goalscorer in competitive, league, as well as continental games. He is a sensation, but still he can improve. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. My motivation comes from playing the game I love.”

World Wells Stills Home Kids Age Motivation Next Games Practice Records Youth My Friends Program League Call Me Sensations Next Day Barcelona Continental

Author:Thierry Henry

“I can see it now: Osama bin Laden goes up to the pearly gates where George Washington comes out, starts beating him and is then joined by 70 other members of the Continental Congress. Osama will say, Hey, wait! Where are my 71 virgins? And George will reply It's 71 Virginians, you asshole!”

I Can Waiting Members Congress Hey Gates Virgins Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden Continental Pearly Gates Virginians

Author:Robin Williams

“Ginny's Little Longhorn is my favorite place to play and hang because it's close to old school beer joint music venue as you'll ever find. The Continental Club is also in the top as well.”

Wells Littles Play School My Favorite Clubs Beer Joints Old School Venues Continental Favorite Places

Author:Dale Watson

“Fred Astaire is the Carioca, the Continental, the very Piccolino of romance.”

Romance Continental

Author:Archie Frederick Collins

“The rise of the anti-hero can be traced to a litany of social reasons. Post World War I, for instance, saw the blooming of some pretty dark stuff - I'm thinking of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, for instance, when "The Continental Op" shows up in Poisonville to clean up the town...and proceeds to kill something like thirty people.”

People Thinking World War Reason Shows Social Stuff Dark Saws Hero Red Towns Clean Instance Posts War Of The Worlds Thirty World War I Harvest Blooming Continental Anti Hero

Author:Tod Goldberg

“The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.”

Firsts Common Steps Creating First Steps Railroads Continental

Author:Charles R. Morris

“The Eurozone has clearly gone spectacularly wrong, pulling down all the continental economies.”

Economy Gone Pulling Continental Eurozone

Author:Timothy Garton Ash

“People feel that European institutions are remote and bureaucratic, run by shady cosmopolitan elites. Britain is not absolutely exceptional because if you look at the opinion polls, those sentiments are now quite widespread also in continental Europe.”

People Ifs Feels Looks Running Opinion Europe Institutions Britain Sentiments Elites Exceptional Polls Shady Continental Opinion Polls

Author:Timothy Garton Ash

“I could identify for virtually every important figure in the history of modern continental philosophy an idea (or more than one) absolutely central to that philosopher's thought, whose original author was Fichte.”

Important Ideas Philosophy Modern Figures Originals Philosopher Continental

Author:Allen W. Wood

“The Declaration [of Independence] was a committee report, and [Tomas] Jefferson was simply the draftsman. [John] Adams's crucial role in bringing about independence in the Continental Congress has tended to get forgotten.”

Roles Independence Forgotten Congress Reports Crucial Committees Declaration Declaration Of Independence Continental Tomas Jefferson Draftsman

Author:Gordon S. Wood

“Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.”

World Security Bases Continental

Author:Alan Bersin

“We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that's emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada. And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.”