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“I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.”
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“And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.”
Source : Alan Furst (2010). “Spies of the Balkans: A Novel”, p.4, Random House
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“England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.”
Source : Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”
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“Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.”
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“A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.”
Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”
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“The Doors embodied—incarnated—a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times.”
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“In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.”
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“But before and after the Mongol upheaval, the Khazars sent many offshoots into the unsubdued Slavonic lands, helping ultimately to build up the great Jewish centers of eastern Europe.”
Source : Salo Wittmayer Baron (1957). “A Social and Religious History of the Jews”
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“You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is tomorrow's life. Great ends cannot be attained by base means. You've proved that in all your social upheavals. The meanness and inhumanity of the means make you mean and inhuman and make the end unattainable.”
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“We've got a lot of violence in the world right now, a lot of upheaval in America with this election coming up, and a lot of unrest will come up from that.”
