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The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

Topics: American Brought Colonies Conquest Contact Dutch Free Had Institutions Later Netherlands Residence Settlers Wise

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We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: America Being Boxes Chief Claim Dutch Formal Gardens Other Plants Pots Pretty Set Very

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Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.

~Amy Chua

Topics: Become Commerce Conquest Dutch Enlightenment Get Immigrants Innovation Just Like Magnet Once Powers Republic Societies States Through Tolerance United United States Used Way You

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My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they'd read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime, Scripture was always read at the table, and then there was prayer to close.

~Ann Voskamp

Topics: Always Ate Bread Close Down Drank Dutch Eat Family Food His Husband Left Living Lunch Morning Never Prayer Read Sat Scripture Table Then Together Until Water You

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Because we're Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.

~Anne Frank

Topics: Became Because Company Director Dutch Father He Holland Jam Jewish Making Managing Products Used Where Which

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They do not air 'GH' in Holland, so I don't get recognized. But the Dutch are wonderfully unimpressed with celebrity, so even if the show did play over there it probably wouldn't affect things much. It's a wonderful life and I am so blessed.

~Anthony Geary

Topics: Affect Air Am Blessed Celebrity Did Dutch Even Get Holland Life Much Over Play Recognized Show Things Wonderful Wonderful Life Wonderfully I Am

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People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language.

~Anthony Geary

Topics: Because Common Courtesy Dutch Even French Here Language Learn Live Me Nobody Only People People Say Say Speak Speaks Think Want Why Why Not Would You I Think

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I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies.

~Antony Gormley

Topics: Along Art Attached Because Before Blame Business Came Dutch Everybody Going Like Movies Relatively Stable Starting Structures Think Who Whole I Think

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I got into house music thanks to Dutch master mixer Ben Liebrand and my friends at school.

~Armin Van Buuren

Topics: Ben Dutch Friends Got House Master Music School Thanks

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My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.

~Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Topics: Been Dutch Filmmaker Friend Gogh Having Islam My Friend Toward Van Van Gogh

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