“The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine, not because the Dead Sea water by evaporation can produce five trillion dollars of metaloids and powdered metals; not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains twenty times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas; but because Palestine is the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, because Palestine constitutes the veritable center of world political power, the strategic center for world control.” WorldTwoMightWantedAmericaPoliticalWaterPowerFiveSeaProduceEuropeTwentiesDollarsJewSoilMetalsEstablishmentReservesAsiaPalestineStrategicAbsolutely NothingPolitical PowerCrossroadsZionistFatherlandPetroleumUgandaHoly LandSea WaterMadagascarEvaporation Author:Nahum Goldmann
“Other countries may boast of this and that, but nobody can touch the United States for poisonous snakes. We have about twenty species, most of them deadly, and Europe has only five or six, none of them much good. We have fifteen kinds of Rattlesnakes alone and nobody else has even one. [Footnote: There is a species in Central and South America, but it probably came from here.]” KindMayCountryStatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesFiveSixEuropeTwentiesSouthSpeciesOther CountriesFifteenSnakesBoastPoisonousSouth AmericaRattlesnakesPoisonous Snakes Author:Will Cuppy
“My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence.” YearsBornExistenceDemocracyGrewHusbandGrew UpEuropeTwentiesMovedVariousIsraelExperimentsMy HusbandDictatorshipSocialistBrazilUtopianFilthy Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead of the United States.” WantYearsStatesTodayLevelsUnitedUnited StatesTenStandardsEuropeTwentiesIranStandards Of Living Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
“The U.S. has in its stockpiles more nuclear bombs, chemical and biological weapons, more aircraft, rockets and delivery systems in number and sophistication than the rest of the world combined. Included are twenty commissioned Trident II nuclear submarines any one of which could destroy Europe.” WorldNumbersWeaponsEuropeTwentiesNuclearBombsChemicalsRocketsDeliverySophisticationAircraftNuclear BombSubmarinesBiological Weapons Author:Ramsey Clark
“24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an aristocracy of the rich and a serfdom of the poor - the inevitable result of a twenty-year erosion of its social contract.” YearsChildrenAmericaSocialSidesBornPoorResultsPovertyRichPercentEuropeTwentiesTrackDevelopingFranceInevitableGermanyProportionContractsBetter OffAristocracyCounterpartsErosionSocial Contract Author:Will Hutton
“I don't understand people who believe that if you ignore something, it'll go away. That's completely wrong - if it's ignored it gathers strength. Europe ignored Hitler for twenty years. As a result he slaughtered a quarter of the world!” PeopleIfsWorldYearsBelieveResultsEuropeTwentiesGoing AwayQuartersIgnored Book:White Line Fever Source: White Line Fever
“When I turned twenty-five, I did a six-week trip around Europe by myself. I'd never really done a European trip before and I'd definitely never traveled alone like that. I just had such a great time meeting people. I had such a great time seeing new cultures and different ways that people think and different ways that they live and different ways that they see the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayDifferentDoneCultureFiveSeeingWeekSixEuropeTwentiesMeetingsDifferent WaysTraveledGreat TimesTwenty FiveNew Cultures Author:Tyler Hoechlin
“The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn't allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation." "I had weasels instead," said Philippa shortly. "Good God," said Lymond, looking at her. "That explains a lot.” MenChildrenSaidChristianMotherThousandSittingEuropeBuiltRootsTwentiesSlaveJewCoastJungleRabbitsPalacesMen WomenGood GodUnshakableFixationWeaselsMoorsRenegades Author:Dorothy Dunnett
“Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.” StillsIdeasWisdomSeemsUniverseNumbersSecretPowerFiveCenturyKeysCivilizationEuropeRelationTwentiesMathematicsBlessedMathematicalHeritageCursedTwenty Five Author:Arthur Koestler
“You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the center of gravity is shifting to the east. And there are a lot of new members. And if you just take the list of all the members of NATO and all of those who have been invited in recently -- what is it? Twenty-six, something like that? -- you're right. Germany has been a problem, and France has been a problem.” IfsThinkingLooksHas BeensProblemTodayMembersSixEuropeTwentiesEastListsFranceGermanyGravityInvitedShiftingNatoCenter Of Gravity Author:Donald Rumsfeld