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“The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.”

Forget Taken Achievement Europe Granted Principal Taken For Granted

Author:Dominique de Villepin

“It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe.”

People Mean Culture Easy Forget Europe

Book:Journeys Between Wars

Source: Journeys Between Wars

“We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal were so powerful that they signed a set of treaties literally dividing up the globe between them.”

Bigs Age Forget Powerful Middle Europe Controlled Globes Spain Middle Ages Treaties Dividing Portugal Netherlands

Author:Max Fisher

“Some Iranian doctors from Europe and America go to Iran and operate for free or teach medical students there. The other day, I met a gentlemen who is helping to protect wildlife in Iran. It's good that many of them don't forget about their country. It's important.”

Important Country Helping America Forget Teach Students Mets Protect Europe Doctors Medical Gentleman Iran Wildlife Iranian Europe And America

Author:Farah Diba

“The climate of this planet has been changing since God put the planet here. It will always change, and the warming in the last 10 years is not much difference than the warming we saw in the 1930s and other decades. And, lets not forget we are at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe.”

Years Has Beens Ends Age Lasts America Differences Forget Saws Planets Europe Climate Decades Ice Covered 1930s North America Ice Age

Author:James Spann

“I have always considered it to be a minor miracle that after the war, people in Europe's border regions were able to forget everything and, in accordance with the slogan "Never Again War," develop a program that still works today.”

People Stills War Today Able Forget Europe Program Miracle Borders Regions Minors Slogans Forget Everything

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“If educators were really understanding of that, they'd say, "You know what? Forget about bilingual, we're going to do multilingual education." So children are ready for the new millennium. We're way behind compared to countries in Europe. If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.”

Ifs Knows Way Children Important Country Culture Understanding Forget Behinds Imagine Ready Europe Sensibility Educator What's Important Millennium

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“The US tactical nuclear weapons are in Europe, let us not forget this. Does it mean that the US has occupied Germany or that the US never stopped the occupation after World War II and only transformed the occupation troops into the NATO forces?”

World Mean Doe War Force Forget Weapons Europe Nuclear War Of The Worlds Germany Occupation World War Ii Transformed World War I Nuclear Weapons Troops Nato Tactical

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I believe that all the euphoria about Europe has led many of us to forget that Europe is a conglomerate of different entities and countries. But if you don't love your own entity, if you don't know your roots and can no longer relate to them, you will also have problems with the rest of Europe.”

Ifs Knows Believe Different Country Problem I Believe Forget Love You Europe Roots Relate Entity Euphoria

Author:Margrethe II of Denmark

“Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.”

People Thinking War Young Forget Issues Cold Europe Stakes Cold War

Author:Barack Obama

“Germany has become the economic heart of Europe because our leaders are weak. But Germany should never forget that France is Europe's political heart. What is happening here today foreshadows what will happen in the rest of Europe in the coming years: the great return of the nation-state, which they wanted to obliterate.”

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Author:Marine Le Pen

“Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same way. But let us never forget ... beyond Europe's borders, in a world where oppression and violence are very real, liberation is still a moral goal, and freedom and security still need defenders.”

“We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.”

Years Nations Forget Blood Thousand Europe Rivers Asking Thousand Years Feuds

Author:Winston Churchill

“Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states.”

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Author:Wesley Clark