“Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'” IfsKnowsMenWorldYearsMayStillsWarStatesWholeAgeLastsMovingFallHoursLosesDarkUnitedKnownLibertyBreakUnited StatesDutyBearsThousandEuropeIncludingBritishTyrannyWhole WorldMoving ForwardIslandsEmpiresBroadsWorld War IiThousand YearsFinestAbyssDark AgesWorld War 2CommonwealthBritish EmpireBracesFinest HourBattle Of Britain Author:Winston Churchill
“After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the number of writings published in every field is greater than all those produced in the past thousand years. Through them there has today been created a new theology and a new jurisprudence; the Paracelsians have created medicine anew and the Copernicans have created astronomy anew. I really believe that at last the world is alive, indeed seething, and that the stimuli of these remarkable conjunctions did not act in vain.” WorldWritingYearsBelieveBookTodayLastsPastScienceLiteratureNumbersStudyGreaterAliveFieldsBirthThousandEuropeMedicineAstronomyTheologyVainRemarkableDevotedThousand YearsStimulusPublicationPrintingConjunctionsJurisprudenceSeething Author:Johannes Kepler
“Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with Tony Blair, with Peter Mandelson... talking about Europe, talking about political reform.” LastsPoliticalLinesPartyTalkingWeekPoliticianConversationEuropeReformPeterBlairLengthyPolitical Reform Author:Nick Clegg
“I don't really understand what a dictator is, but on the other hand I sometimes, in a nice way, envy myself," he said. "I am the last and only dictator in Europe and indeed there are none anywhere else in the world.” WorldWaySaidSometimesHandsLastsNiceEuropeEnvyMemorableDictator Author:Alexander Lukashenko
“It's not often you find yourself writing about a game that you haven't seen one kick of. But it's not often that the favourites lose 5-0 in one of their most important matches of the season. But all things considered - the difference between expectations of success and margin of victory, the fact of Strachan's debut, the injury to Chris Sutton, the joy it will bring Rangers fans, and the potential financial loss of going out of Europe completely in the first week in August - it is hard to remember the last defeat this bad for any team.” WritingFirstsImportantHardFactsLastsRememberJoyGamesLosesDifferencesLossWeekTeamFansHavensFootballVictoryExpectationsEuropeAll ThingsSeasonsDefeatFinancialSoccerAnalysisKicksInjuryFinding YourselfGoing OutMarginsAugustRangersDebutFinancial Loss Author:Phil Cornwell
“United have spent all season commemorating the 50th anniversary of Busby's decision to defy the Football League and take the club on a tragic and triumphant journey into Europe, but no orchestrated event could conjure the celebrations ignited by last night's outstanding obliteration of Roma or deliver a more fitting tribute.” LastsNightDecisionUnitedJourneyEventsFootballEuropeSeasonsClubsSoccerAnalysisLeagueTragicCelebrationLast NightOutstandingFittingTributeTriumphant50th Anniversary Author:Andy Hunter
“One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the debt imbroglio, and falling terms of trade. The last of these governments to fall were the Communist regimes of eastern Europe, which have now gone the way of other Third World countries. The second in the cascade of bifurcations is thus symbolized by 1989.” WorldWayCountryGovernmentLastsFallTermGoneCapitalismEuropeThirdsTradeDebtOilCommunistRegimesEasternUndoneThird WorldEastern EuropeThird World CountriesCascadeImfOil PriceTutelageBifurcation Author:Immanuel Wallerstein
“The Finn is the most watery person in Europe... Here people take baths that last three or four hours and steep their bodies in water right down to their most secret selves.” PeoplePersonsSelfBodyLastsThreeWaterHoursSecretFourEuropeBathsSteep Author:Angel Ganivet
“I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.” ThinkingLastsImpossibleRevolutionEuropeMonarchyFrench Revolution Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to them over several generations. We don’t really know, because the first atheistic societies have only emerged in Europe in the last few decades. They are the least efficient societies ever known at turning resources (of which they have a lot) into offspring (of which they have few).” KnowsShouldFirstsHappensLastsKnownGenerationsResourcesEuropeDecadesEfficientOffspringAtheistic Author:Jonathan Haidt