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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia. -- Gore Vidal
It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution. -- Henry Louis Gates
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me. -- Bela Lugosi
I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force. -- William Whipple
The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc. -- C. Wright Mills
Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this picture eschews that Continental obsession with small stories, set in quaint towns filled with pockmarked folk doing their banal things. -- Seth Shostak
Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles. -- George Mikes
Fred Astaire is the Carioca, the Continental, the very Piccolino of romance. -- Archie Frederick Collins
Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach. -- Donald Pleasence
With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army. -- Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army. -- Joseph J. Ellis
A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent. -- David M. Raup
One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress. -- Samuel Adams
This is where the Continental Congress met over two hundred years ago during the American Revolution. So, Lancaster was actually the capital of our nation for one day in 1977. -- Dan Quayle
I am at the Continental Divide with the astral beings. They're most beautiful. They're most luminous. They have many shapes and sometimes their shape changes constantly, All kinds of colors. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The Declaration [of Independence] was a committee report, and [Tomas] Jefferson was simply the draftsman. [John] Adams's crucial role in bringing about independence in the Continental Congress has tended to get forgotten. -- Gordon S. Wood
Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel. -- William Booth
Ginny's Little Longhorn is my favorite place to play and hang because it's close to old school beer joint music venue as you'll ever find. The Continental Club is also in the top as well. -- Dale Watson
During the darkest days of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress and George Washington - I call him the first George W. - (laughter and applause) - urged citizens to pray and to give thanks and to ask for God's protection. -- James Monroe
I finished 'Ice Age: Continental Drift' in 2012, and I'm living in my agent's guest bedroom in Los Angeles because you don't make a ton of money writing an animated film. The movie makes a billion dollars, and you make 'twelve cents.' -- Jason Fuchs
My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays in various Continental states France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia where the study of Continental statesmen has been almost forced upon me. -- Andrew Dickson White
Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army. -- George Washington
The First Continental Congress made its first act a prayer, the beginning of a great tradition. We have then a lesson from the founders of our land. That lesson is clear: That in the winning of freedom and in the living of life, the first step is prayer. -- Ronald Reagan
If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation. -- Gouverneur Morris
If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights. -- Roger Milla
God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction. -- Nicolas Cage
Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories. -- Said Musa
Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and across continental Europe the figures are more like several thousand. -- Geoff Mulgan
I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground. -- Will Self
The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves. -- Jared Diamond
China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that... I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they'd just bus people in from another province, you know what I mean? They're very self-contained. -- Damon Albarn
The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going. -- Al Gore
The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon - which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you. -- Oren Peli
This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America. -- William Labov
There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market. -- Joseph Hume
If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts. -- Frank Gaffney
Since 1775, when the first Continental Congress called for a national day of prayer, there have been such events called for by almost every President. I saw the figures - 34 out of 44 Presidents have called for a national day of prayer. Some of those who didn't have died in office. -- James Dobson
Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue. -- Vince Cable
I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap. -- Robert Ballard
The Czech Republic, severed from its old Slovak half, sits in apparent landlocked contentment, inside the European Union but outside the troubled Euro Zone, set into the new Continental mosaic like one of the small sturdy paving stones, just a few inches square, that form the sidewalks under the visitor's ambling feet. -- Thomas Mallon
The plumbing and pluvial dynamics of the Amazon, the largest freshwater system on Earth, are still far from understood. This is partly because it is a semi-open system. Moisture flows in and out unpredictably. A lot of nonlinear feedback loops and 'remote influences' - continental, transcontinental, oceanic, meteorological - come into play. -- Alex Shoumatoff
Africa is the second-largest continent, a landmass second from Asia. It also is the second most populated continent, with 900 million people. In fact - coming back to the land mass - Africa is so big that you could fit in the continental United States, China, and the entire Europe into Africa and still have space. -- Euvin Naidoo
My husband recently made me try on a bikini. A bikini is not so much a garment as a cloth-based reminder that your parts have been migrating all these years. My waist, I realized that day in the dressing room, has completely disappeared beneath my rib cage, which now rests directly on my hips. I'm exhibiting continental drift in reverse. -- Mary Roach
My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles. -- Giorgio Moroder
The Eurozone has clearly gone spectacularly wrong, pulling down all the continental economies. -- Timothy Garton Ash
The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies. -- John Mearsheimer
The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market. -- Charles R. Morris
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend. -- Leo Robin
I became the first ever Euro-continental champion in WWF history. Well, besides D-Lo Brown, but he doesn't count. -- Kurt Angle
Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?' -- Arsene Wenger
The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history -- Larry Summers
The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history. -- Lawrence Summers
Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war. -- David K. E. Bruce
There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1. -- David Suzuki
We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular taxonomy. -- Jerry A. Coyne
Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood -- N. Scott Momaday
Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe. -- Douglas Hurd
We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I could identify for virtually every important figure in the history of modern continental philosophy an idea (or more than one) absolutely central to that philosopher's thought, whose original author was Fichte. -- Allen W. Wood
I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was. -- David Foster Wallace

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