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Europe has such an expansive history. -- Bill Engvall
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from. -- Eddie Izzard
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. -- Margaret Thatcher
Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism. -- Gijs de Vries
Americans think that they have a history, but it's nothing compared to Europe. -- Ashton Kutcher
I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust. -- Amy Heckerling
In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided. -- Harri Holkeri
The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce. -- Iqbal Quadir
You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps. -- Tony Judt
In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame. -- Desmond Tutu
Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history. -- John Bruton
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe. -- Harold Rosenberg
When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born. -- John Henrik Clarke
Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison. -- Annie Besant
The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation. -- Nick Clegg
From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours. -- David Cameron
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now. -- Laurent Fabius
More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close. -- Anders Fogh Rasmussen
The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point. -- David Cameron
The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout European history. -- Walter Kasper
The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible. -- Quentin Crisp
Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson. -- Frank-Walter Steinmeier
We can't completely rely on the aberrations of history to explain today's European necessities. Future-related issues are no less pressing. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions. -- Richard Dawkins
In the darkest days of European history, America stood close by us and today we stand close by America, nothing will ever be the same. -- Romano Prodi
The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair. -- George Will
Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well. -- Bernard-Henri Levy
It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state...it means the end of a thousand years of history. -- Hugh Gaitskell
What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history. -- Imre Kertesz
Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history. -- Madison Smartt Bell
Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty. -- Jerry A. Coyne
Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change. -- Carl Andre
Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may as well amuse yourself by attacking the Jews. -- Elliott Abrams

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