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There are two perspectives on the oil sands. You have companies that want to make it the next Saudi Arabia. The other is that it's a transitional resource to a low-carbon economy, and to regard it as anything else is to drain the continent's financial resources.

~Andrew Nikiforuk

Topics: Anything Anything Else Arabia Companies Continent Drain Economy Else Financial Make Next Oil Other Perspectives Regard Resource Resources Sands Saudi Saudi Arabia Two Want You

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We will be very persistent when it comes to enforcing freedom, justice, and self-determination on the European continent.

~Angela Merkel

Topics: Continent Enforcing European Freedom Justice Persistent Self-Determination Very Will

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'Avatar' imaginatively revisits the crime scene of white America's foundational act of genocide, in which entire native tribes and civilizations were wiped out by European immigrants to the American continent.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Act America American Avatar Civilizations Continent Crime Entire European Foundational Genocide Immigrants Native Out Scene Tribes Were Which White Wiped

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The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

~Arnold J. Toynbee

Topics: Beaches Cities Continent Immense Land Lie Like Taken Whales

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We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Art Continent Easy Imported Luxury Necessity Settled Treat Us Without

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Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?

~Arundhati Roy

Topics: Africa Again Anywhere Around Continent India Kicked Longing Over Pakistan People South South Africa Think You

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Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.

~Barry Eichengreen

Topics: Across Been Collapse Continent Deepening Divisions Euro Political Reasons Specter Zone

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The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

~Barry Mccaffrey

Topics: Because Continent Crime Economically Mexico Politically Same States Trapped United United States

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My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Acknowledge Between Continent Could Country Daughter Embodies Even Felt First Land Loneliness Man Myself Novel Past Present Tiger

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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

~Bono

Topics: Across Africa Continent Disease Extreme Eye Fact First First Generation Generation Look Mean Ocean Off Ours Poverty Say Stand Whole Written

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