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We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.

~Ed Weeks

Topics: Army Boarding Boarding School Consistency Father Figured Germany Gives Kind Lived More School Skin Thick Thick Skin Would You

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I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.

~Edd Byrnes

Topics: Asked Before Europe Germany Italy Knew Led Make Me Most Movie Next People Saw Years Yugoslavia

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After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: After Altogether Began Britain Countries Dropping Dynamism Falling France Germany Growth Half Late Less Loss Major More More Or Less Most Productivity Rates 1970S 1960S 1990S

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Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in America, and later in Germany and France: It brought sustained growth to these nations - also to nations with entrepreneurs willing and able to copy the innovations.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Able After Also America Britain Brought Came Copy Entrepreneurs France Germany Growth Innovation Innovations Later Mass Nations Prosperity Soon Sustained Up Willing

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Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Appear Dynamism France Germany Italy Less Others Possess Than

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True, other countries are helping us. Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

~Eduard Shevardnadze

Topics: Come Count Countries Day Determined Germany Help Helping Netherlands Other Other Countries Our Own Provide Resources States Substantial True Us Will

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Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

~Eduard Shevardnadze

Topics: Come Count Day Determined Germany Help Netherlands Other Our Own Provide Resources States Substantial Will

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Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover.

~Edward Grey

Topics: Altogether Apart Bargain Country Disgrace Expense France Germany Good Make Name Never Recover Us Which Would

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That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.

~Edward Grey

Topics: Austria Critical Decisive Dependent German Germany Immensely Moment Strength Strong Will Word Would

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There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.

~Ehud Olmert

Topics: America Amongst Britain China Country Desire Doubt Extremist France Fundamentalist Germany Government Great Great Britain Iran Islamic Mentioned Nations Nuclear Nuclear Weapons One Country Other Possessing Russia See Those Weapons Western Western World Which World

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