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“Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America.”

America Bird Giants Legends North America Cannibal Sasquatch

Author:Rick Riordan

“George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Said Whole Hands America Growing Wonderful Stage Youth Privilege Obsession Buying Old People God Knows Glorify North America Growing Older

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You can’t hate the land, your motherland, the place that you come from, and we can’t hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves. The Black man in the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central America, South America, and in the Caribbean—is the best example of how one can be made, skillfully, to hate himself that you can find anywhere on this earth.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“If the Earth is the size of a pea in New York, then the Sun is a beachball 50m away, Pluto is 4km away, and the next nearest star is in Tokyo. Now shrink Pluto's orbit into a coffee cup; then our Milky Way Galaxy fills North America.”

Ifs Way Earth America Science Next Stars Sun New York Size Coffee Cups Galaxy Shrinks Orbit North America Coffee Cup Peas Tokyo Milky Way Pluto

Author:Wayne Hays

“People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error.”

People Should Years Believe Earth America Science Years Ago Errors Billions Scales Yards North America Width

Author:Richard Dawkins

“The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got less than his share, and as a producer gave least. The black American today shows us the perfect parasite image - the black tick under the delusion that he is progressing because he rides on the udder of the fat, three-stomached cow that is white America.”

People Men Facts Shows Today America Three Black Simple White Perfect Progress Share Sick Fats Producers Consumers Delusion Cows Evident North America Tick Parasites

Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such foolishness as considering himself a black 'Democrat,' a black 'Republican,' a black 'Conservative,' or a black 'Liberal' ...when a ten-million black vote bloc could be the deciding balance of power in American politics, because the white man's vote is almost always evenly divided.”

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.”

Men Has Beens Facts Home America Past Science History Environment Environmental Features Inheritance North America

Book:A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American

Source: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American

“There are more Muslims in North America then Jews Now.”

America Islam Jew North America

Author:Dan Rather

“On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us - Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America.”

America Values Moral Democracy Events Ethics Consequence My Family Surprise Japan Chapters Pearls December North America Harbour Surprise Attacks December 7 December 7 1941

Book:Metamorphosis: Stages in a Life

Source: Metamorphosis: Stages in a Life

“A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation...Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.”

“The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years. The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue, Chapman wrote. All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead.”

“The biggest disease in North America is busyness.”

Inspiration America Faith Disease Christian Inspirational North America

Author:Thomas Merton

“[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It would be as if every vertebrate in North America somehow felt drawn to a particular house in Peoria, Illinois. Are we really that interesting?”

Ifs Might Would Be Earth America Science Asks House Stars Felt Interesting Particular Hundred Billions Aliens Galaxy North America Illinois Vertebrates Peoria

Author:Seth Shostak

“President Bush has embarked on an eight-day tour of the continent. He hopes this one goes better than the other ones he's made recently. Obviously he's not doing that well in North America [on screen: '36% Approval'], his South American trip had a few bumps [on screen: 'Angry mobs of torch-carrying bumps'], Europe seems to think the president doesn't care what they think, but hey, who cares what they think? They could at least thank him for what he's done for their burning effigy industry.”

Thinking Wells Made Done Seems Care America President Industry Europe Angry South Eight Screens Hey Burning Approval Continents Who Cares President Bush Bumps Torches North America

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Critics of NAFTA and CAFTA warned at the time that the agreements were actually a move toward ... an eventual merging of North America into a border-free area. Proponents of these agreements dismissed this as preposterous and conspiratorial. Now we see that the criticisms appear to be justified.”

America Moving Areas Criticism Critics Borders Agreement Justified North America Merging Nafta

Author:Ron Paul

“Mammoth is an incredible community and world-class attraction, ... Were committed to creating a vibrant living experience that matches the natural, majestic beauty of the area. 80/50 Mammoth will make the new Village at Mammoth one of the hottest year-round playgrounds in North America. For the first time, Mammoth will be a place where outdoor enthusiasts can experience the unparalleled amenities and services of a five-star resort hotel combined with privileges of owning a prestigious second home.”

“As a Jew and a psychologist, I understand the stress that religious communities feel in connection with questioning of circumcision... I raise these questions out of deep caring and compassion, for our community generally, and our male infants in particular. We are inflicting, generally, unrecognized harm with circumcision, and the perpetuation of this harm is far greater a concern than the discomfort that comes from confronting the advisability of this practice. Many Jews who do not circumcise in North America, South America, Europe, and Israel support this view.”

“One of the reasons churches in North America have trouble guiding people about money is that the church's economy is built on consumerism. If churches see themselves as suppliers of religious goods and services and their congregants as consumers, then offerings are 'payment.'”

People Ifs Reason America Church Religious Economy Trouble Built Consumers Goods Offering Consumerism Stewardship Payment North America Goods And Services Suppliers

Author:Doug Pagitt

“Covertly invest into non-White areas, invest in ghetto abortion clinics. Help to raise money for free abortions, in primarily non-White areas. Perhaps abortion clinic syndicates throughout North America, that primarily operate in non-White areas and receive tax support, should be promoted.”

Should Helping America White Support Taxes Areas Raises Abortion Ghetto North America Clinic Syndicate

Author:Margaret Sanger

“As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of slavery. I do not mean indirect slavery, the slavery of proletariat; I mean direct slavery, the slavery of the Blacks in Surinam, in Brazil, in the southern regions of North America. Direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present-day industrialism turns as are machinery, credit, etc. … Slavery is therefore an economic category of paramount importance.”

Source: German socialist philosophy

“A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."”

People Has Beens Country America Dies Enemy Roots Germany Japan Primitive Motto North America Formidable Hog

Author:D. W Brogan

“Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that the 'only good Indian is a dead Indian' and could not have deprived them so easily of their lands and lands and lives. Robbing people of their proper names is often the first step in robbing them of their property, liberty, and life.”

People Firsts Said America Names White Liberty Steps Land Property Indian First Steps Deprived North America Robbing Settlers

Book:Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

“I think it's great now that we seem to be in an era where it's OK to be gay and I think that the society in North America has had more of a problem with it than any other society.”

Thinking Problem Seems America Gay Eras North America

Author:Jason Priestley

“Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land.”

Ifs Needs Matter America Land North America

Author:Thomas King

“I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun.”

Men Used Games Fun Sports My Family Used To Be Soccer League Weekend Tickets Recreation North America Family Friends Soccer Game Fun Family

Author:Brandi Chastain

“I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though”

Knows I Can America Bird North America

Author:Roger Tory Peterson

“Obviously, I would have been happier if Canada had not been conquered in the past by the English, if this part of North America had remained French, but you can't rewrite history.”

Ifs Has Beens America Past Canada North America

Author:Jean Chretien

“So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else available. Western civilization not only provides a bit of life, a pinch of liberty and the occasional pursuance of happiness, it's also the only thing that's ever tried to. Our civilization is the first in history to show even the slightest concern for average, undistinguished, none-too-commendable people like us.”

“I'm a big traveler these days. I was in Hong Kong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I'm on my way to North America. You will find me all over.”

Way Bigs America Parent My Way These Days Traveler Find Me North America Belgium Hong Kong

Author:Jean-Claude Van Damme

“Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America.”

America Causes Painful Grammar North America Leading Causes Painful Death Bad Grammar

Author:Dave Barry

“About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small protuberance jutted out from the northwest corner of what would later become North America.”

Years Long America Ocean Years Ago Ancient Corners Determined Billions Continents Outlines North America

Book:Two complete novels

Source: Two complete novels

“The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s.”

America Building Stones Manage Chicago Steel Constructs North America Skyscraper

Book:Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

Source: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

“The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don't think there's anything like it in North America.”

Thinking America Areas Masterpiece North America

Author:Ben Crenshaw

“If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would look strikingly similar to the pop Christianity that has taken over the airwaves of North America.”

Ifs Looks America Jesus Christianity Taken Taught Pops Opposition North America

Author:Tony Campolo

“If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North America would have established strong native states capable of adopting European war tactics and maintaining their independence to this day, as Japan kept her independence from China.”

Source: The Oxford history of the American people

“Much of the big media outlets in North America are owned by arms manufacturers, like Westinghouse, or G.E. [General Electric]. That's unacceptable. So we're not getting editorial policy, we're not getting a vision of truth. People just don't know what is going on anymore, and that's really dangerous stuff.”

People Knows Bigs America Stuff Vision Media Dangerous Policy Arms Electric Outlets Disarmament North America Editorials General Electric

Author:Denis Halliday

“Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.”

Men Wells Country Christian America Young South Contact Young Man Australia Association North America South America

Author:Fritz Sauckel

“I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.”

People Stills Country America Millions Heard Radio Stations North America Radio Stations

Author:James Dobson

“Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.”

Ifs World America Cities Europe Areas Western Latin Globes Asia Latin America North America Gdp Western Europe Rural Areas

Author:Lin Biao

“Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none.”

May Persons Important Care America Bars North America Maternity Important Person Most Important Person

Book:Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First

Source: Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First

“Time is running out fast. I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days -- before there is a material risk of a fundamentally unnecessary default by a country like Spain or Italy which would be a financial catastrophe dragging the European banking system and North America with it. So they have to act now.”

“A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.”

Kind America Law Desire Liberty Kings Slavery Slave Former Granted Permission Request Virginia Preventing Abolish Colony Legislators North America Importation

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“The people of North America, at this time, expect a revisal and reformation of the American Governments, and are better disposed to submit to it than ever they were, or perhaps ever will be again.97. This is therefore the proper and critical time to reform the American governments upon a general, constitutional, firm, and durable plan; and if it is not done now, it will probably every day grow more difficult, till at last it becomes impracticable.”

People Ifs Done Government Lasts America Grows Difficult Plans Revolution Critical Reform Firm Submit Reformation American Revolution North America American Government

Author:Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet

“The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat.”

People Thinking Knows America Strong Safe Demand Safety Remains Canada Very Strong Beef North America Food Safety

Author:Ann Veneman

“I think it's just a coincidence that the North American teams are out. Most of us here have been playing in North America for a long time. Our knowledge of the big ice has been world championships here and there, same for the Canadians and the Americans. I don't see it as an advantage.”

Thinking World Long Has Beens Bigs America Team Long Time Advantage Ice Championship Coincidence Here And There North America

Author:Daniel Alfredsson

“When the Europeans first arrived in North America, the average depth of the topsoil was 53.34 cm (1¾ ft) and it was rich in the types of symbiotic organisms necessary for plant roots to absorb minerals from the soil. Today North America averages around 15.24 cm (6 in) of topsoil and most if it is exhausted of nutrients and much is devoid of life.”

Ifs Firsts Today America Rich Type Roots Plant Environmental Depth Average Soil Organisms Exhausted North America Minerals Nutrients Topsoil

Author:Thom Hartmann

“Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form of crude oil. In contrast, conventional oil production in North America returns about 15 joules. Because almost all of the input energy in tar sands production comes from fossil fuels, the process generates significantly more carbon dioxide than conventional oil production.”

“I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.”

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking down others. Like a gap in the forest when a giant tree falls, new growth will rush in. Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one.”

Way Giving Real America Fall Growth Cities Tree Wind Stronger Structure Forests Giants Gaps Tall Coast Jungle Hurricanes Knocking North America Real Ones Asphalt New Growth

Author:Alan Weisman