“I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.” FeelsBelieveUnderstandingResultsVictoryEuropeBritishGermanyLastingSoviet Author:Pierre Laval
“Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in London, for example, or the coverage of popular culture in the national press, or the fact that the film industry is now about young people making films about young British issues.” PeopleWholeFactsFilmYoungCultureResultsIssuesStreetsFashionExampleChangedIndustryDirectEnglandPressesBritishLondonCoveragePopular CultureFilm IndustryPistolsThings Have Changed Author:Julien Temple
“In the past, the British had signally failed to build an effective structure of royal authority and administration in their American colonies. As a result, no possibility existed of soothing and winning over influential and talented Americans, in the way that influential and talented Scotsmen were increasingly being won over, by giving them increased access to state employment.” WayGivingStatesPastWinningResultsPossibilityAuthorityStructureBritishAccessEmploymentAdministrationRoyalInfluentialColonySoothingBritish HistoryScotsmen Book:Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 Source: Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837
“The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.” SeemsResultsBritishVocabularyDialectSyntax Author:Lister Sinclair
“More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a result of political violence in Germany during the entire National Socialist revolution.” PeoplePoliticalResultsViolenceRevolutionDiedBritishTinyGermanyIrelandSocialistEasterUprisingPolitical ViolenceBritish Rule Author:Adolf Hitler
“Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.” HandsLanguageResultsBritishYieldEnglish LanguageSpinningEnglishmenBoycott Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works
“...He went to Scotland and studied under Lister...("Lister was persecuted by the British Medical Association. He was threatened with having his license revoked.") Yet in Lister's hospital virtually no one died as a result of operations because Lister had developed a carbolic acid wash and disinfectant. Dr. Keen came back from Scotland...He was referred to as a crazy Listerite.....He was denied an opportunity to practice in every hospital in Philadelphia.” AgeOpportunityDarkResultsPracticeCrazyDiedBritishMedicalOperationsHospitalsAssociationDeniedDrsThreatenedScotlandLicenseAcidDark AgesPhiladelphiaPersecuted Author:Paul Douglas