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«I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.»
«The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.»
«No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.»
Author: John Donne | About: Men | Keywords: an island, Continent, entire, island, piece, the continent
«In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.»
«The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.»
«There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before.»
«No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .»
«To begin with Ireland, the most western part of the continent, the natives are peculiarly remarkable for their gaiety and levity of their disposition ; the English, transplanted there, in time lose their serious melancholy air, and become gay and tho»
«From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.»