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In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

~Gene Tierney

Topics: About American Among Away Europe Happened Leading Many Months Nothing Ocean Seemed Talk Tendency Threatening Trouble Up Very War World World War World War Ii

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What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.

~Gene Tierney

Topics: Abroad Brother Different Different World Europe First Months Mother Sailed Sister Six Spend World

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Europe has shown how government can be organised in a network. Its institutions both compete and co-operate and include a directly elected parliament that does not appoint the executive, independent judiciaries and a complex set of relationships between the Commission, the Council of Ministers and the Parliament.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: Appoint Between Both Commission Compete Complex Council Directly Does Elected Europe Executive Government How Include Independent Institutions Ministers Network Organised Parliament Relationships Set Shown

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Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and across continental Europe the figures are more like several thousand.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: Across Average Big Continental England Europe Figures Government Like Local Local Government Lowest More Our Population Serve Several Simply Thousand Too While

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Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Child Civilization Continent Essentially Europe Fame Flood Great He Height His Later Marks Movement North Overflow Renaissance Sequel Shakespeare Western Western Europe Years

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My parents separated soon after I was born, so I left Helsinki when I was a year old. My mother took me to Paris and then other places throughout Western Europe.

~George Gaynes

Topics: After Born Europe Left Me Mother Old Other Parents Paris Places Separated Soon Then Throughout Took Western Western Europe Year I Was Born

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Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.

~George H. W. Bush

Topics: Be Strong Europe Great Great Nation Heart Independent Nation Play Poland Proper Prosperous Role Should Strong

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And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe.

~George Martin

Topics: After Austere Because Been Europe Everything Felt Guess Had Having Identified Immediately Know Particularly People Really Repression Very War Years You Young Young People

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I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.

~George Mcgovern

Topics: Aircraft Combat Defended Europe Factories Flew Full His Hitting Missions Most Oil Our Over Prime Railway Some String Tank Targets Those Were Yards

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If the E.U. allows itself to be priced out of the world economy, the next generation will not get jobs, living standards will decline, and the Union will lose the popular consent of the people of Europe.

~George Osborne

Topics: Consent Decline Economy Europe Generation Get Itself Jobs Living Lose Next Next Generation Out People Popular Standards Union Will World

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