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Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
Brent Scowcroft

True, Violence, Dead

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.
Jared Diamond

Another, Far, Themselves

The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
Carlisle Floyd

America, Sense, Artist

This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality.
Payne Stewart

Trust, Game, Golf

The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation.
Ismail Haniyeh

The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.
Andrew Bogut

Best, Attitude, Game

The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Freedom, Friend, United

For many Europeans the next decade looks to be filled with threats rather than opportunities.
John Hutton

Rather, Next, Looks

You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
Fernando Flores

Big, Everyone, Jerks

What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.
Timothy Radcliffe

Her, Moral, She

The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.
Timothy Radcliffe

Truth, Challenge, Next

We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework.
Joschka Fischer

United, Interest, Excellent

The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.
Antony Beevor

Great, Happy, Together

The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together, share a common destiny and count in the world; or face the prospect of disunity and decline.
Jose Manuel Barroso

Live, Together, Destiny

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
Salvatore Quasimodo

Conscience, Modern, Example

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?
Samuel P. Huntington

Big, Question, Countries

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
David Korten

Society, Strong, Proud

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.
Barbara Amiel

Attention, Aim, Perhaps

First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.
Daniel Yergin

Different, Find, Energy

We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.
Ahmed Yassin

Enemy, Fight, Took

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.
Isabelle Huppert

Bit, Perhaps, Believers

So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.
Sarah Zettel

Society, Different, American

Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there.
Sonny Rollins

Time, Long, Musicians

This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus.
Josiah Strong

Country, Fact, Resources

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.
Asia Argento

Movies, Boring, Made

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
Francis Parkman

Long, Revolution, America

Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.
Tom G. Palmer

Life, America, Idea

We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern Europe.
Maximilian Schell

Forget, Old, Europe

I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

Between, American, Second

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

British, Behave, Extremely

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