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“The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt.”

Growth Wealth Results Effort Achievement Ambition England Strive Busy Circles France Vain Continents Multitudes Expansion Competence New England Toiling

Book:Pioneers of France in the New World

Source: Pioneers of France in the New World

“[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.”

Interesting Effort England Ill Respectable Ill Health

Author:Pamela Frankau

“In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.”

Kind Made Used Loss Effort Greater Findings Consequence England Saving Useless Grass Ecology Worms Corn New England Mischievous Blackbirds

Book:A Benjamin Franklin Reader

Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader

“The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.”

Growth Effort Influence England Resistance Immense Parliamentary

Book:Epochs of American History

Source: Epochs of American History

“Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device.”

Believe Effort Stones England Enormous Mysterious Devices Arrangements Crude Computing Druids Stonehenge

Book:Dave Barry in Cyberspace

Source: Dave Barry in Cyberspace

“The actual fund is called "THE JIMMY FUND" and THE REDSOX FOUNDATION IN BOSTON has gotten involved and people all over New England are very supportive of this effort. The Jimmy Fund is an official charity of the Boston Red Sox and my song "Down at Fenway Park" is often played at Fenway and if you buy the C.D. a portion of the proceeds go to the Jimmy Fund via the Red Sox Foundation.”

People Ifs Song Effort Involved Red England Foundation Charity Officials Parks Fund Portions Supportive Boston Jimmy New England Boston Red Sox Fenway Park

Author:Freddy Cannon

“To go back to a moment of Western civilization remote enough in time so that we should be able to look at it dispassionately, ask what happened during World War I. What was the typical behavior of respected intellectuals in Germany, England, the United States? What happened to those who publicly questioned the nobility of the war effort, on both sides? I do not think the answers are untypical.”

“As soon as the boy left the hall, Ramsey suggested that Brodick fill Gideon in on all that had transpired. "Our commanders are going to have to coordinate their efforts for the attack," he said. "Iain wants Winslow and Dylan and you to handpick the soldiers who'll ride with us into England." "We're attacking England?" Gideon asked, astonished. "No," Brodick answered. "Though the thought of it warms my heart.”

Want Heart Said Left Effort Boys My Heart England Soldier Halls Dylan Attacking Commanders Gideon Coordinates

Book:Ransom

Source: Ransom

“If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs”

Source: Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts

“Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.”