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Letter "C" » Continent
«The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way over here on this unknown continent. So we must continue to have society that is hospitable to the unexpected, which allows possibilities to develop beyond our own imaginings.»
«Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire»
Author: George F. Will
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About:
War
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Keywords:
brace,
braced,
braces,
brace up,
bracing,
Continent,
defying,
Empire,
modern world,
remarkably,
reminder,
reminders,
revolutionary,
turned on
«No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.»
«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.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
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Writer)
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Keywords:
break dancing,
brotherhood,
Brotherhood Of Man,
Continent,
denunciation,
grandeur,
hum,
humming,
in unison,
overpower,
overpowered,
overpowering,
roar,
sway,
sweeps,
The Brotherhood,
the continent,
The Hum,
uniformity,
unison,
wildfire
«I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors? eyes ? a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby?s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Writer)
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Keywords:
aesthetic,
commensurate,
compelled,
contemplation,
Continent,
Dutch,
enchanted,
face to face,
flowered,
New World,
pander,
pandered,
pandering,
the Dutch,
transitory,
vanished,
whispers
«The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
and the like,
chastity,
Continent,
dissipate,
dissipates,
generative,
holiness,
invigorate,
invigorated,
invigorates,
invigorating,
the like,
unclean
«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 . . .»
Author: John Donne
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About:
Country,
Friends,
Mankind,
Nations
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Keywords:
an island,
clod,
Continent,
Europe,
island,
promontory,
the continent,
Thine,
washed,
wash away
«I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.»
«I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.»