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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Brought Conceived Continent Created Dedicated Equal Fathers Forth Four Liberty Men Nation New Our Proposition Score Seven Years Years Ago

Keywords: Abandon


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The Ned Kelly is definitely the coolest of all the crime fiction awards, and if you think about it, it's the only one that's given for an entire continent.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: About Awards Continent Coolest Crime Crime Fiction Definitely Entire Fiction Given Kelly Only Think You

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Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: Adequate Continent Develop Epidemic Generally Means More Pandemic Response Spread Than Which Without

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England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

Topics: Continent England Europe France India Indies Only Rivals Were West

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Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.

~Alejo Carpentier

Topics: After Always Continent Cuban Daily European Faith Final Five Had Impose Less Music Our Own Rejoice Struggle Success Than Those Triumph Who Years

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I think there has been a long-running notion in the West that Asia was a continent of people that were really conquerable. That people from Asia were weak, they were small in all ways - including physically small, geopolitically small, economically small - all of which are changing, of course.

~Alex Tizon

Topics: Asia Been Changing Continent Course Economically Including Notion People Physically Really Small Think Ways Weak Were West Which I Think

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I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.

~Alexander Mccall Smith

Topics: Being Books Constant Continent Country Fed Fed Up Great Great Success Lives Made Only Paint People Picture Pleased Portray Positive Poverty Problems Puts Reporting Side Something Special Success Think Up Very Welcome Which I Think

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One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: About Absolutely Absolutely Nothing Africa Being Between British Case Continent Double Entire Experience Fairly Get Got Itself Made Makes Mother Nothing One Of The Things Place Quite Raised Rejects Rough Soft Standing Then Things Too Tough Toughness Whose You

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Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

~Amelia Earhart

Topics: Activities Aviation Came Continent Conviction Crossing Everywhere Flights Fun Irrespective Know Large Making Modern Modern World Much Offered Opportunity Permitted Planes Record Sex Shared Should Small Trying Who Women World

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I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.

~Andrew Eldritch

Topics: About Another Being Better Continent England Food Institutions Keep Like Lot North Place Position Preferred Social Society Still Thing Things Women Work

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