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«We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.»
Author: Cecil Rhodes
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«I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.»
Author: David Cronenberg
| Keywords:
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«We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.»
Author: Elizabeth II
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
colonies, colony, lacked, statesmanship, the colonies, The Right Time, yielding
«America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.»
Author: James F. Cooper
| Keywords:
colonies, colony, Establishing, exaggerated, instrumental, owes, religious sect, sects, the colonies
«The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world.»
«All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.»
Author: Nikita Khrushchev
| Keywords:
colonial, colonies, colony, imperialist, regime, Sparrows, supporting, the colonies, The United States of America, United States of America
«Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Marriage
| Keywords:
colonies, colony, couples, erupt, erupting, erupts, flaw, get on, in practice, married couple, nerves, regularly, teeming, teeming with, teems, the colonies, vicious
«The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Principles,
Protestantism,
Religion
| Keywords:
colonies, colony, dissent, dissidence, Northern, prevalent, Protestant, Protestantism, Protestants, refinement, refinements, the colonies
«Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, ''that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.''»
«I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.»
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