47 Quotes About Continent


  • Author Stephen Leacock
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    A 'Grand Old Man'. That means on our continent any one with snow white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.

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  • Author Loretta Napoleoni
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    Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment where other ethnicities, less cynical and more positive, will play a big role in its future.

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  • Author Peter Piot
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    Governments of this continent have to increase their investment in AIDS, ... And in education and health, they all have an army. I mean there are resources there. Even if you're poor it's a matter of prioritization. And I think it's not too much.

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  • Author Earl Sweet
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    Unusually warm weather significantly reduced the winter draw on (natural gas) inventories, leaving the continent very well supplied.

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  • Author Sam Shepard
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    The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.

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  • Author Kolo Toure
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    We're really going for it... It would be great to win on the continent before going to the World Cup.

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