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“If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.”

Ifs Should Years Important Lasts One Thing Europe Britain

Author:Tony Blair

“There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I try to crush it, confident that secondary matters will then settle themselves.”

Trying War Matter Body Enemy One Thing Europe Settling Crush

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“One thing I fear, that you Americans will do the same thing that you did after the last war. I mean that you will pull out of here and leave Europe, then Russia will have her way. Private enterprise and individual rights will be lost just as much as under a Nazi government. Frightful!”

Way Mean War Government Lasts Individual Lost Rights One Thing Europe Russia Enterprise Nazi Individual Rights Private Enterprise

Author:Hjalmar Schacht

“I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.”

Thinking Men Way Years Stills Running Father Interesting One Thing Blood Century He Man Europe Years Ago Regions Creeds Veins Our Father Paganism Norwegians Odin Scandinavians Wiccan

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“One thing that has been fascinating to me is the exploding interest in traditional American barbecue in Europe. We Americans have historically always imported food ideas from other places, and now we are exporting this gastronomic treasure called barbecue.”

Has Beens Ideas Interest One Thing Europe Treasure Traditional Fascinating Barbecue Exploding Exporting

Author:Steven Raichlen

“What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.”

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy

“Bloomberg TVThe one thing I think is likely to happen under either candidate is massive fiscal stimulus. You have so many voters in Western Europe and North America who've had no real income growth for over 10 years, and they are, in the words of Howard Beale, "Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore."”

Thinking Years Real Happens America Growth Hell One Thing Europe Mad Western Income Candidates Massive Voters Stimulus North America Western Europe

Author:Gary Shilling

“Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.”

Remember One Thing Europe Performing Sweden

Author:Goran Persson

“America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.”

America One Thing Gun Europe West Miles Anarchy Packs Cowboy Cliche Miles Away Sheriffs Wild West Cowboy Movie

Author:Steven Pinker

“And I know one thing more - that the Europe of the future cannot exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their nationality, who were killed at that time with complete contempt and hate, who were tortured to death, starved, gassed, incinerated, and hanged.”

Knows Hate One Thing Europe Contempt Nationality

Author:Andrzej Szczypiorski