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"We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe."

"In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland."

"Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind."

"Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low."

"I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan."

"I know they are going to be doing a box set in Europe of Danzig 5 and 6 and some other stuff."

"Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden."

"I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything."

"It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself."
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"Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya."

"When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago."

"Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance."

"South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century."

"There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating."

"Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America."

"To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone."

"The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves."
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