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redslilstories · 7 years ago

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A new adventure

Author: lilyme (aka. redslilstories aka me ;)) Summary: Sofia reveals a little detail about her Mama Callie and makes her Mommy Arizona consider taking a life altering step. Characters: Arizona, Sofia, mention of Callie Rating: PG Disclaimer: I do not own the characters in this story, nor do I own any rights to the television show "Grey's Anatomy". They were created by Shonda Rhimes and belong to her and the ABC network. No copyright infringement intended!All mistakes are mine.

She wasn't smiling today.

Not happily skipping steps on their way home from school. Not asking Arizona to let them take that little detour that would lead them to the small pond where she could visit the swan family living there. Not excitedly bubbling away about her day to the point of giving her mother a delightful headache.

Unfortunately this was not an emotion Arizona was not used to. Sofia had been down several times in the last few weeks. Months even.

It had always come down to one reason and the blonde doubted it would be much different today.

And even though she knew that the cause for her baby's distress would be over in a few weeks, it was no reason for her not to talk about her sorrow and take it as serious as she had the first time it had surfaced.

Thus she had decided to serve them each a ginormous sundae with Sofia's favorite raspberry-vanilla ice cream and pull their fluffiest blanket from the drawer in preparation for a cozy Friday night snuggled up together on the couch. All ready for a long conversation with her little girl.

It was needed. Because something had to change.

It couldn't go on like this. She couldn't go on watching her child depressed time and time again. And Sofia couldn't go on missing school whenever she was down.

Today had not been one of those, fortunately. But there had been several, too many days in recent time where this had happened.

And fleeing the every day world for adventures, either outside of Seattle or simply to be with Mommy at the hospital instead of school... it was okay as a rare exception, but it couldn't last forever.

Callie would most likely not have allowed her to skip school on several days. She wasn't such a pushover as Arizona often feared she was.

The brunette had a stricter approach. Strict, yet still very caring and sensitive.

Something Arizona sadly missed in a different brunette that had entered her life not too long ago.

"Here you go, sweetie," Arizona walked towards the couch and handed Sofia her sundae. The cup was light blue one that had Frozen's Elsa on it."Look, I even put some sprinkles and a snowflake wafer on top".

"Thanks," Sofia mustered a little smile as she took her ice cream from her mommy's hands.

"I have some sugary stars stashed somewhere, I think. You want some of those as well?" Arizona suggested, walking back into the kitchen to retrieve her own ice cream. A corresponding cup, light pink and featuring Olaf.

"No, that's okay," the girl returned without much thinking.

"Oh, good. Probably will be Christmas by the time I find that packet again, anyway," she joked, knowing Sofia loved to tease her about her sometimes slightly chaotic nature. Which also included not knowing where she had put something around the house.

Sofia herself was much more organized, needed everything to be in its place. Arizona knew it must be in her genes, since Callie sported the same trait.

But today there was no teasing, not even a tiny laugh at this. Today there was just... nothing.

Arizona sighed inwardly as she picked two spoons from the utensil drawer and finally moved into the living room again. Crawling underneath the blanket with Sofia, she pondered how to approach the issue that had her daughter more sad than a girl her age should ever be.

"So, um, tell me what you did in school today?" she suggested. She had a slight suspicious that something that had happened in school today had caused the unfortunately familiar change in mood. Because this morning the girl had seemed much happier.

Of course a dispute with a friend or a bad grade – which for Sofia's own high standards meant anything but an A – could also be a reason. But somehow Arizona knew her initial suspicion about an persistent issue was probably true.

"It was okay. We learned some new songs in music's class. And we played soccer in P.E.. I scored twice," Sofia announced, making a little more room for Arizona to sit more comfortably next to her.

Her mother was somewhat impressed. This was the longest sequence of sentences the young brunette had said to her all afternoon. "That's my girl," she just said instead, and combed her fingers through Sofia's silky hair. "And anything else? Any fun exercises in English, or...?"

Sofia signed as she scooped some ice cream up to eat it. Even at her young age of just over eight years, she knew what her mom was doing. Trying to see what had her upset. And more importantly was trying to fix it.

Only... Sofia wasn't sure she could.

She finally began. "Mrs. Buchanan had us write an essay on what we want to do during our summer break and what we are looking forward to in the next school year".

Arizona raised her eyebrows, eating a bit of her ice as well. "Well, I think that sounds like fun. What did you write about?" she encouraged her to continue.

From what she knew from Sofia's bouts of sadness in the last weeks, she was very much looking forward to next school year, and the summer before it as well.

Summer break was only three weeks way. And she would spend half of it with her, before Callie would come to pick her up and bring her to New York for a year. Sofia really longed for that, she knew.

For Callie. For her friends in New York. Probably even Penny, who she knew Sofia liked very much as well.

So, could there really be something that would make her sad in all this?

"I wrote about us wanting to go to on a camper tour through some states," Sofia said and actually smiled a little upon the prospect of it.

"Definitely," Arizona agreed, more than willing to keep this promise.

They had it all planned out.

A tour that would lead them to some of the biggest natural sights in northeastern USA. Of course one of them being Mount Rainier National Park, which they had visited many times already, but would never ever grow tired of. Followed by Yellowstone National Park with its hot springs and geysers and all sorts of wildlife. Arches National Park, where thousands of stone arches made you marvel at what nature was capable of. Grand Canyon, where they would walk along the sky walk and Sofia promised to never let go of her mommy's hand, since Arizona was mildly afraid of heights. And of course Yosemite National Park with its giant waterfall and and big old trees.

Rounded up by several stops at other sights here and there, the last one being the Oregon Coast Aquarium that Sofia had one seen in a documentary and ever since dreamed of visiting.

It was going to be their big adventure. About two weeks with just the two of them. Winding down and enjoying their time together.

And they would make the most of it.

"So, what else?" she wondered, snitching some of Sofia's sprinkles with her spoon. Something that immediately caused the girl to shield her sundae with her hand from her mommy in amusement.

"Hey!" she laughed a little, her sorrow temporarily forgotten. Only temporarily. Because from one moment to the next, the mood changed, and the mother immediately noticed the tears forming. "And I... I wrote about going back to New York and being with Mama and my friends again".

"Which is a good thing, right?" Arizona queried. "I know you miss Mama," she smiled encouragingly, showing Sofia that it was okay to feel like this. "And she will be happy to have you with her again".

She knew that living thousands of miles apart was hard on Sofia and very likely on Callie as well. But she was happy knowing that the two of them would soon be united again.

Even if for her that meant letting her go again. She already fretted that day. It had been bad enough the first time around.

"But then you'll be sad and all alone," Sofia suddenly argued, as if able to read her mind. "Like Mama is right now."

Sofia knew that her mothers loved her equally. And she loved them both just the same. And she didn't like making them sad whenever she had to leave to fly across the country. Because she knew they were sad; she had seen them cry, even though they always tried to hide it around her.

Through her own emotions at Sofia's much too grown up concern, confusion struck Arizona.

"Mama's alone?" she asked, wondering in which way Sofia could mean this. Of course Callie very likely felt a huge pang in her upon having her own flesh and blood thousands of miles away. And missing your child was something that just never went away. But... still Callie supposedly had someone with her in New York. Someone very close to her. Her girlfriend she probably loved very much. So... was she really...alone?

"It's only her in New York," Sofia quickly confirmed her question and with her clarification confused her even more.

"But what about Penny?" she asked her straight forwardly, as she placed both their sundaes on the coffee table. They had stopped eating, and she had a feeling they wouldn't get to finish them now.

"Her and Mama broke up over a year ago," she explained, and Arizona could see in her girl's eyes that this was something that affected Sofia as well. The split of a person that was present in the every day life would always leave a hole in a child's world. And she knew from witnessing it herself that those two had gotten along. Had been pretty friendly with each other.

Just like she and Callie were again by now. So she was confused about the fact that Callie would not tell her about this. And would not even give an inkling about it in all their conversations for over a year.

She wondered why.

Was it fear about her reaction?

Or the fact that it was not actually Arizona's business who and if she dated? As in fact Callie had never asked her if she had anyone significant in her life.

Which was... as of today not really the case. With Carina and their too differing opinions on certain aspects of life – for certain one being the handling of Sofia's crisis - she realized it couldn't work. The accusation that she was mollycoddling her. She wasn't. She was just being the best mom she could be. And Sofia – having gone through so much in her young life already – certainly deserved that.

But she would have had no trouble telling Callie. Especially if things had become serious in any way or a solid relationship would have broken apart, as of course there was always Sofia to be considered in all this as well. So she was concerned about Callie concealing this from her.

"So, um," she cleared her throat. "She's lonely, you think?" Arizona questioned.

And Sofia just nodded with sad eyes. It was one of the reasons she wanted to go back to New York as soon as possible. To keep Mama company. But at the same time she didn't want to leave Mommy alone in Seattle.

Her mind came up with an idea. An easy fix that would solve all their loneliness problems.

"Do you want to come to New York?" she asked, for Arizona entirely out of nowhere.

Therefore she could only scrunch her eyebrows at the serious expression on her daughter's face. "What? What do you mean?"

"So you won't be lonely when I leave," Sofia explained. "If we all live in New York, then I can spend time with both of you. You won't have to be lonely. And I think Mama would be happy if you were there. She misses you. She once said that to Auntie Meredith on the phone when I was there during winter break. I wasn't supposed to be listening. But it's why Penny left..."

Arizona's eyes became wide at the onslaught of revelations Sofia had just confronted her with, and she felt scarily unprepared for the direction this serious conversation she had hoped for was taking all of a sudden.

Callie missed her.

Had possibly broken up with Penny because... she missed her...?

And now was all alone and lonely in New York.

And their smart little daughter simply came up with an easy but yet so hard to do solution.

Sofia became anxious when her mommy didn't respond for far too long. The blonde's eyes just stared into nothing with an expression the eight year old couldn't read. She knew that she had just done something that wasn't allowed. "Please don't be mad, Mommy. I know we're not supposed to tell other people's secrets. But I wanted to help," she argued.

"What?" Arizona shook out of her stupor as she noticed the dark eyes, that were way too much like Callie's, water up. "Hey," she shushed, as she engulfed the worried girl in a tight huh, "shh, I'm not mad," she reassured. "It's okay".

She really wasn't mad.

Certainly not at Sofia.

She was tremendously confused about the situation, however. Having not expected something like this happening. Callie confessing that she missed her.

And the fact that it had happened made her nervous. In a really weird and long forgotten way.

A suppressed way.

Suppressed because it had hurt too much.

The longing had always hurt too much.

Still did.

Her eyes moved past the melting sundaes to a single picture standing on the living room sideboard. A picture of Sofia's first birthday with her and Callie happily smiling into the camera while Sofia herself looked a little grimly. At that really not a fan of camera-like objects and flashy lights.

She thought about how happy they had been back then. Before the plane crash and everything else had slowly but surely torn them apart.

Part of her still wondered how they had actually ended up like this. On opposite sides of the country, trying to live their separate lives. Only related by their daughter that had to suffer through a perpetual cycle of missing half of her parents.

She realized that maybe Sofia had a point about the loneliness.

And maybe not even the girl's suggestion was so otherworldly.

Maybe it could be that easy.

Maybe this would be the adventure that they all needed and deserved.

A new beginning.

In New York.

Away from the place where so many bad things had happened and even Arizona herself felt ill at ease at times.

It would certainly be the best option for Sofia.

And it could open the door for a restart of another kind.

After all, Callie missed her.

Because if she was really being honest with herself, she really missed her as well.

END

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writingonjorvik · 7 years ago

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Can We Discuss How SSO Utilizes Space?

I would like to believe that, as an opinion piece writer, it should be obvious that statements I make in this series are based originally on my own opinions, and then researched out to elaborate. Considering I’m going to be a touch judgmental on a very new region though, I feel that fact needs to be reiterated and that, at the end of the day, these are my own opinions and you are free to disagree. Spoilers for game maps Mistfall, Epona, and Golden Hills Valley.

Carrying on, let’s discuss how SSO utilizes space, and I mean this in a topography sense, not the outer space themes in the series. For a game about horses, and a game about adventure, one would imagine that space is incredibly important. Getting to explore a wide open world on horseback is a thrilling adventure setting, the two work wonderfully together, and it’s why mounts are popular in most fantasy and science fantasy games. Thematically, we adore this idea.

SSO uses space in a myriad of interesting ways, and some of them I would argue at better than others. For instance, I think that the collective of Moorland and Fort Pinta makes for a wonderful starting area. The high cliffs and ridges between the waters around the area allow for a contained experience for the player to learn the mechanics in a safe, sheltered environment. Both areas are largely designed to avoid needing the jump feature, and it allows the player time to learn the other control mechanics well enough before throwing them into the real story. And while the areas are small, they’re also largely open, allowing for easy navigation. All this while players are also catching glimpses of new and other areas, nothing too grand, but enough to interest them moving further. A glimpse of Epona here, the Silverglade castle there, a spot of Mistfall over the bay. Nothing in detail, and nothing of any consequence just yet, but enough to get the player to come back the next day and the next until they gain access to the majority of the Silverglade map.

I think the original Silverglade map is also very well done, the area including Valedale, Firgrove, the Winery, and so on. It is an open hub, perfect for that adventurous spirit so many people seem to enjoy about SSO, littered with hidden secrets and stars all over, but instead of glimpses there are now actual substantial looks into other areas to encourage players to keep playing. Or for the most part, but those spokes being difficult to see doesn’t put a damper on this hub being open and memorable. And Silverglade has a lot of different hooks in a lot of different areas. Peaks into other areas, UFO sightings, a generally wide variety of plains and forests to ride through. Even is Silverglade is the emptiest of the maps by comparison, it still has memorability as a hub map.

Now, in SSO’s defense, I understand why they are making areas more difficult to see from this hub of Silverglrade. However, I do think this damages their efforts long term. To combine the lack of any sense of progress I discussed here, a lot of areas you can barely see what you’re unlocking. It doesn’t add into that curiosity easily if you can’t even get a look at what the area contains, at what you’re working to unlock, not unless you’re a die-hard enough fan or have seen enough pictures outside the game to remain interested. Personally I find Valley of the Hidden Dinosaur and Mistfall the most egregious of these, particularly Dino because you can see absolutely nothing into the area. Not only is there a level slog to unlock it now, but you can’t even tell if it’s worth it unless you’ve seen pictures. Mistfall is, to a lesser degree, bad because while that long ride along the mountains is beautiful with the fog and lighting, it’s not the area’s real aesthetic, and is arguably misleading to the area’s appearance as a whole. I got a swamp vibe riding along this trail for the first time, something that stayed with me until Dundall. That appearance from the outside of the map is not conducive to advertising what the area is, but there’s too little to go on without outside pictures to make an opinion. What’s so interesting about Dundall? All I can see is a long, long road.

Compare this limited view for these regions to regions like Golden Hills Valley and Epona. Yes, we cannot access these areas, but there is a very wide area, both in Silverglade and in the Harvest Counties where you can see into these regions. Even if you can’t see everything, you can see enough, and have enough out of reach to find those areas interesting. Oh, what is that building just there? Or what’s that forest under that bridge? There are immediate questions and rewards with these two regions, curiosities you have time to develop while you’re exploring Silverglade, and then have answered fulfillingly when those areas are unlocked, only to be replaced with new curiosities.

Looking at Epona next to Mistfall is really the comparison I want to make, because I believe it is an area like Epona that makes Mistfall’s release lackluster to me. I think this is an apt comparison too because Mistfall will be SSO’s first year back into annual map releases after the South Hoof Peninsula and Jorvik City releases in 2016. And in almost every way, I find that Epona is better and it’s largely because of the space SSO utilized in it, and utilized it better.

I already summarized that Epona has a better preview. From the very beginning, before you even unlock the Harvest Counties, you can catch glimpses of Epona, and actual things inside the fence that are noteworthy, the Old Stormgarden and Moses’s Lighthouse for instance. There’s a quest very early into Harvest that pushes that curiosity about what is going on behind the gate. And then when you unlock Epona, you’re not even entering through those gates. You’re entering through a secret mountain pass that feels like a mountain pass. It only heightens the anticipation of what’s behind that fence, and where you’re going to come out. Once you have entered Epona, there is a massive amount of space to explore. And not only is the area large, but there are a number of secrets hidden within. This was the last time too we saw SSO putting in dedicated, named secret areas at release. And think about the secrets we did find Epona. The Guardian Dale, the bunker in Shipwreck Shores, Old Hillcrest only being half accessible, Fort Maria, the Cauldron. All of these encouraged this sense of exploration, and an interest in the narrative. Most of them even had narrative hooks added into them very early on to encourage theorizing. All of these rewarded a new kind of exploration, really encouraging verticality and using height to make you feel something. Think of the first time you rode down the Cauldron, or the first time you stood next to a statue at Guardian Dale. Did you feel small? Epona is rewarding as an area because it uses its size to make the player feel small, but also consider how hidden some of those secrets were. Two years later and some people still don’t know where the Guardian Dale is. Something that massive is so well hidden. That is using space and exploration well.

In contrast, consider Mistfall. Don't get me wrong, Mistfall is stunning as an area. Some of the best graphics implemented in the game so far. But it’s not a rewarding space to play in. I know it is supposed to release in two more parts, but it should have been one big release SSO.

Mistfall is pretty, again, I will give it that, but let’s go back to that preview. With the exception of a few break off points, most of which are just empty areas with no structure or piece of interest besides stars hidden in them, the ride up to Dundall is a road. There’s almost no room to go off on either side of the road, with only minor exceptions, until you get to Dundall. And then the first time you can get off that road, you are greeted with a fence. The first one is for a paddock, but the second fence is not. And, despite some slippery jumps around invisible walls, that fence isn’t “explorable.” It’s a barrier, one that has not come down and arguably doesn’t even have a reward in it at the moment, and certainly not at release before the tree star was added. That is a very narrow, railroaded feeling coming in, not the vast exploration we’ve gotten in other heavily wooded regions like Valedale or Golden Hills or even parts of Dinosaur Valley.

This map was advertised like a national park, the Yellowstone or Yosemite of Jorvik one could say. As someone who lives quite near national parks, that’s exciting. The ability to use verticality in SSO, with lots of mountain passes and tight wooded areas to encourage strong controls, those are interesting ideas. Lots of off-roading and exploration. When I heard elk bugles near the Rangers Station, I was so excited. But SSO utilizes vertically in such a limited fashion, this area doesn’t master that feeling of being tall or tight. Not in the right ways. Yes, Mistfall uses some verticality, but we’re not scaling mountains. We’re barely scaling foothills when we do get to more vertical areas. If anything, mountains are serving the exact same purpose they have for the entirety of the game; as a barrier. Mountains are not, in SSO’s intentional design, meant to be climbed. They are meant to be walls. There are certainly beautiful gorges and canyons in the forest, but that’s it. There are no nooks within them, no nooks that aren’t already part of a road through the area. Think about the area around Bramble Gorge. Is there any area not connected to a path? Because I can find trails almost everywhere. This forest feels too explored for a national park.

Further, there are no secrets in this map. There are definitely interesting ideas, like the viking culture in Dundall, and the Rangers, and the story with G.E.D., and looking forward to the next section, and the lily pads on the lake, but there are no secrets in the map we have now. There’s no Guardian Dale, or Stone Circle, or Scarecrow Hill, or Kalter’s Gate, or Devil’s Gap here. The most interesting features I would say is the standing stone in Dundall, the trail leading up behind the lake, and the trail headed further into Mistfall. There is something there, for sure, but only one of those we can actually see, and one involves a new “map” altogether, not this staging Dundall map we have now. That’s not exactly generating interest from the area around Dundall, but from other areas entirely. Again, Mistfall is a difficult case, the whole two more sections, but my point. In the map we have now, there are very few interesting features. There are a few named houses, yes, but those should be self-explanatory. Interest in who the characters are, I will give, but that’s not an interest in the space, it’s an interest in the story. Beyond beautiful to look at and the characters we met or will meet, what physical parts of the map intrigue interest?

It’s not that I think Mistfall is a bad map. I think it’s beautiful and the implications of the story and culture around Dundall are fascinating. But, they don’t utilize this space well. Mistfall is not visually very advertising from the outside. You can’t see Birk’s house from outside of Mistfall, or really anything unless you hang out on South Hoof’s coast too much. Dundall is barely visible from there too. And inside the area there’s no real landmark of a mystery, nor does SSO really implement the concept of this setting very well. It is too heavily tread with too few areas that don’t already have answers to their purpose.

To make suggestions, I want to avoid Mistfall. It’s already in motion, and whatever the rest of the area coming out is, that’s already been developed. I think SSO would benefit from going back as having a viewing platform over the mountain pass into the second area, and maybe from having an old boat wreck on that long road towards Dundall to generate interest for people looking in, but that’s backdoor work.

Instead, I’ll make a suggestion to avoid these kinds of issues with what I’m guessing will be the next major map release, the area north of North Link, what’s likely Pine Hill Valley from Winter Riders. I think SSO should give us an early level quest-- hear me out-- to help them clear out their mountain pass about half way through, leading to another dig site that overlooks the valley. From there, we’ll be able to get a better view into the area, but this is not the point I think the area should release. When the area does release at, hopefully, level 18 or so, then SSO utilizes the space with interesting landmarks like the Pine Hill Mansion and the number of villages around the area and new secrets separate from the old map’s design, and connecting this area to other maps like Golden Hill Valley and Mistfall like they’ve done with Epona. Both regions were connected in the original games, so making this connection isn’t far fetched. Hopefully, considering Pine Hill is surrounded by mountains, SSO will utilize those mountains for trails coming in and out of the area, explaining its exclusion. It also could have an interesting moral plot hook of the G.E.D. pushing to connect Pine Hill with Silverglade by a major road, and thus the area around Pine Hill is kinda ok with them being in the area.

If SSO uses tight and tall maps in Pine Hill, I’d like to see a return to Epona’s use of these instead of Mistfall’s. A more “You need to slow down to make smart decisions” kind of mentality to navigate branching mountain passes or heavily wooded forests instead of “Turn or fall, we don’t care at what speed” kind of mentality with gorges and canyons. Definitely would love to see a return of secret locations and hidden stars at launch of a map too, but that may be wishful thinking. And definitely, definitely have Pine Hill advertising the areas around it instead of putting them behind mountains.

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networkingdefinition · 5 years ago

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• 1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them. – Kurt Vonnegut • A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed. – Benjamin Franklin • A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States…De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation…Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being. – John Holdren • A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been “root, hog, or die.” – D. 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Sider • America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there, and the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States. – Alan Bersin • As a Jew and a psychologist, I understand the stress that religious communities feel in connection with questioning of circumcision… I raise these questions out of deep caring and compassion, for our community generally, and our male infants in particular. We are inflicting, generally, unrecognized harm with circumcision, and the perpetuation of this harm is far greater a concern than the discomfort that comes from confronting the advisability of this practice. Many Jews who do not circumcise in North America, South America, Europe, and Israel support this view. – Ronald Goldman • As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of slavery. I do not mean indirect slavery, the slavery of proletariat; I mean direct slavery, the slavery of the Blacks in Surinam, in Brazil, in the southern regions of North America. Direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present-day industrialism turns as are machinery, credit, etc. … Slavery is therefore an economic category of paramount importance. – Karl Marx • As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper Yellowstone and the like afford the greatest natural shows, I am not so sure but the prairies and plains, while less stunning at first sight, last longer, fill the esthetic sense fuller, precede all the rest, and make North America’s characteristic landscape. – Walt Whitman • Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America. – Dave Barry • Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form of crude oil. In contrast, conventional oil production in North America returns about 15 joules. Because almost all of the input energy in tar sands production comes from fossil fuels, the process generates significantly more carbon dioxide than conventional oil production. – Thomas Homer-Dixon • Black people in America will never be free so long as they’re on the white man’s land. We can’t be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we’ll be free. – Muhammad Ali • Bloomberg TVThe one thing I think is likely to happen under either candidate is massive fiscal stimulus. You have so many voters in Western Europe and North America who’ve had no real income growth for over 10 years, and they are, in the words of Howard Beale, “Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.” – Gary Shilling • Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness – or Europe will fetch up in a no-man’s land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America. – David Cameron • Covertly invest into non-White areas, invest in ghetto abortion clinics. Help to raise money for free abortions, in primarily non-White areas. Perhaps abortion clinic syndicates throughout North America, that primarily operate in non-White areas and receive tax support, should be promoted. – Margaret Sanger • Critics of NAFTA and CAFTA warned at the time that the agreements were actually a move toward … an eventual merging of North America into a border-free area. Proponents of these agreements dismissed this as preposterous and conspiratorial. Now we see that the criticisms appear to be justified. – Ron Paul • Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined). – Susan Sontag • Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days. – James Buchan • Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds. – John Leo • First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables. – Mitt Romney • First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada. – Vicente Fox • For [Malcolm Subban] I know that he’s the No. 1 ranked goalie in North America and the world right now, he’s got a great opportunity. He’s got to enjoy this whole process because it only comes once. Not that many players get the opportunity to walk up on that stage and get that jersey. – P. K. Subban • For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America, is an act of resistance. – Cheryl Clarke • For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe. – Paul Stamets • For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world’s economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule. – Paul Achleitner • George Macdonald said, ‘If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands’, but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life. – Elisabeth Elliot • Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from … God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life. – Rush Limbaugh • Had the white settlers in North America called the natives ‘Americans’ instead of ‘Indians’, the early Americans could not have said that the ‘only good Indian is a dead Indian’ and could not have deprived them so easily of their lands and lands and lives. Robbing people of their proper names is often the first step in robbing them of their property, liberty, and life. – Thomas Szasz • Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America. – N. Scott Momaday • Hundreds of thousands of years ago a very powerful civilization lived in what we now call North America. They congregated around power places – interdimensional vortexes where it is very easy to shift from one plane of reality to another. – Frederick Lenz • Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England. – Samuel Johnson • I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities. – William Labov • I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don’t know, though – Roger Tory Peterson • I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission. – Paul Cellucci • I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • I enjoyed every minute of it, I traveled all over North America, racing everywhere I could, and I had fun with it. I didn’t make a whole lot of money, but if I could do it again today, I’d do it, and I think I’d make it. – Louise Smith • I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing. – Murray Bookchin • I find it interesting to see people – mostly people who are younger than I am – going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day. That fascinates me, because it seems to be symbolic of something going on in the culture itself, and I also have a sort of innate admiration for the stubbornness it requires to actually make those things physically. It’s become incredibly difficult. In North America, we’ve largely forgotten how to do it. – William Gibson • I guess the prime example is in North America there’s a thing where if there’s no opportunity to move forward with the puck, then a [hockey] player is told to dump the puck into the other zone. Just give up the puck and dump it in. Give it to the other team. And to the Soviet mentality in coaching, it just doesn’t make any sense. If you’re a skilled player, why are you going to give the puck away to the other team? Just give it away, right? – Gabe Polsky • I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I’ve got deep family there, but I’m a California kid. – Donal Logue • I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money…. In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true. – Henry David Thoreau • I like driving. I’m a real sucker for driving across North America – I never get sick of it, ever. – Neko Case • I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn’t doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn’t coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America. – Kandyse McClure • I own a Ferrari race team, and we race all over North America. – Robert Herjavec • I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them. – Al-Waleed bin Talal • I think – particularly in terms of the destiny of Africans in North America – our destiny has also been shaped indelibly by global alliances. – Gerald Horne • I think it’s great now that we seem to be in an era where it’s OK to be gay and I think that the society in North America has had more of a problem with it than any other society. – Jason Priestley • I think it’s just a coincidence that the North American teams are out. Most of us here have been playing in North America for a long time. Our knowledge of the big ice has been world championships here and there, same for the Canadians and the Americans. I don’t see it as an advantage. – Daniel Alfredsson • I think it’s wrong for North America in particular, the West in general to make a comparison between the economic situation in Cuba and the extraordinarily developed industrial complex of North America. – Huey Newton • I think there’s a big market in North America [with travelers] going to Lisbon and connecting over Lisbon. – David Neeleman • I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe. – Zora Neale Hurston • I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain. – Edward Abbey • I was in Vancouver, and I was in what I was told was the poorest neighborhood in North America – which I find very hard to believe because has anyone here ever been to Detroit? – Eugene Mirman • I went to professional men’s soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun. – Brandi Chastain • I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else. – George Bernard Shaw • I wonder if this reason is partly geographical, that talk radio is so much more successful in North America than in Britain? People who are very remote – I’m thinking of Newfoundland – feel very connected though the radio. – John Gimlette • If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn’t that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country. – Janet Campbell Hale • If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America. – George Catlin • If the Earth is the size of a pea in New York, then the Sun is a beachball 50m away, Pluto is 4km away, and the next nearest star is in Tokyo. Now shrink Pluto’s orbit into a coffee cup; then our Milky Way Galaxy fills North America. – Wayne Hays • If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North America would have established strong native states capable of adopting European war tactics and maintaining their independence to this day, as Japan kept her independence from China. – Samuel Eliot Morison • If we apply the term revolution to what happened in North America between 1776 and 1829, it has a special meaning. Normally, the word describes the process by which man transforms himself from one kind of man, living in one kind of society, with one way of looking at the world, into another kind of man, another society, another conception of life…. The American case is different: it is not a question of the Old Man transforming himself into the New, but of the New Man becoming alive to the fact that he is new, that he has been transformed already without his having realized it. – W. H. Auden • If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would look strikingly similar to the pop Christianity that has taken over the airwaves of North America. – Tony Campolo • If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that’s been on shelves for more than five minutes, I’ll give you 1,200 bucks for it. – Jack Tretton • I’m a big traveler these days. I was in Hong Kong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I’m on my way to North America. You will find me all over. – Jean-Claude Van Damme • I’m still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries. – James Dobson • Imagine the earth’s population of six billion people reduced to just one hundred representatives. Statistically, that makes 30 white, 70 non-white. It means 6 people own 59% of the wealth and they all live in North America. 80 are in substandard housing. One has an education. One owns a computer. Don’t blame me if it all sounds crazy. – Grant Morrison • In 1619, when there are reports about the first blacks brought to British North America, they are referred to as N-I-G-G-U-H-S. Well, it doesn’t seem that that was meant in a derogatory way. It seems merely descriptive. – Randall Kennedy • In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America was not in any radical way dissimilar from that of what the American settlers called the mother country. – Robert Burchfield • In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America’s Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking down others. Like a gap in the forest when a giant tree falls, new growth will rush in. Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one. – Alan Weisman • In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense. Obviously they are no good at it. The whole idea smacks of the fumble-witted idealism of a high-school Marxist society. – Fred Reed • In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man’s inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home. – Ellsworth Huntington • In fact, the number one reason for obesity in North America is simple: over consumption. And we over consume because we’re hungry. – Brendan Brazier • In my case I would emphasize anarcho-communalism, along with the ecological questions, the feminist questions, the anti-nuclear issues that exist, and along with the articulation of popular institutions in the community. I think it’s terribly important for anarchists to do that because at this moment not very much is happening anywhere in North America. – Murray Bookchin • In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy. – Yehuda Levi • In North America someone who doesn’t know anybody, he can go… you can be respected for your own identity. It pushes your personality to become stronger. – Gaspar Noe • In North America, hip-hop and urban music are much more developed than it could be in Europe, except for a couple of markets like France, for example, or Germany, they’re a little bit more aware. – K-Maro • In North America, people get a sense that something is really wrong in government and in our culture. There is a corruption, not only in politics, but of spirit as well, when people are so quick to be violent with one another. I think everybody would like to be able to find a solution to make things better. We have the desire to reform inside of us, and we get frustrated because we don’t know how to change things, even if it comes to our own behavior. Sometimes you get frustrated because you don’t know how to stop that thing that you know is either hurtful to yourself or someone else. – Jennifer Beals • In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage. – Michael Steinhardt • In North America, the medium-to-large publishers are generally confining investment to enhancements, upgrades and opportunities for incremental capacity and efficiency improvements, while among the smaller newspapers, there continues to be interest in systems that can provide a significant boost in production capabilities. – Eric Bell • In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America. – Thomas B. Macaulay • In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they’re really, really buying internationally. – Jim Balsillie • In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be constantly reminded that there are still existent Indigenous peoples and communities in North America, but whether left or right, recent immigrant or descendants of settlers, even descendants of enslaved Africans, the Native presence is not a consideration in the day to day life of individuals and municipal, state and national governments. – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded. – Karl Marx • In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were – at least relative to their moral nadirs – such as labour legislation, the opening of the professions to women, intolerance for domestic violence, but so much is still morally unacceptable – the weapons trade, cruel and unusual punishment, economic parasitism. – Catherine Wilson • Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none. – Marsden Wagner • Industrialized countries have disproportionately more cancers than countries with little or no industry (after adjusting for age and population size). One half of all the world’s cancers occur in people living in industrialized countries, even though we are only one-fifth of the world’s population. Closely tracking industrialization are breast cancer rates, which are highest in North America and northern Europe, intermediate in southern Europe and Latin America, and lowest in Asia and Africa. – Sandra Steingraber • It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are. – Malcolm X • It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour. It is not, accordingly, in the richest countries, but in the most thriving, or in those which are growing rich the fastest, that the wages of labour are highest. England is certainly, in the present times, a much richer country than any part of North America. The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England. – Adam Smith • It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered, before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide, and, apparently, an impervious boundary of forests, severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict. – James F. Cooper • It’s tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia. – John Malkovich • I’ve never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized. – Manuel Puig • Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss ideas that come from Latin America or Africa and do not insert themselves into capitalist interests. – Paulo Freire • Just when I get my church all sorted out, sheep from the goats, saved from the damned, hopeless from the hopeful, somebody makes a move, get out of focus, cuts loose, and I see why Jesus never wrote systematic theology. So you and I can give thanks that the locus of Christian thinking appears to be shifting from North America and northern Europe where people write rules and obey them, to places like Africa and Latin America where people still know how to dance. – William Henry Willimon • Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America. – Rick Riordan • Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land. – Thomas King • Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe. – Mikhail Bakunin • Living here in North America – I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We’ve come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people’s willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa. – Kandyse McClure • Major theme of the book [“Hotels of North America”], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction. – Rick Moody • Mammoth is an incredible community and world-class attraction, … Were committed to creating a vibrant living experience that matches the natural, majestic beauty of the area. 80/50 Mammoth will make the new Village at Mammoth one of the hottest year-round playgrounds in North America. For the first time, Mammoth will be a place where outdoor enthusiasts can experience the unparalleled amenities and services of a five-star resort hotel combined with privileges of owning a prestigious second home. – Puff Daddy • Many people who are drawn to work about racism and transphobia may be new to thinking deeply about colonialism and indigenous resistance in their North America. – Dean Spade • Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by the movement of Black Consciousness…He spoke to all Africans on the earth, whether they lived in Africa, South America, the West Indies or North America, and he made Blacks aware of their strength when united. – Walter Rodney • Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person’s car is the only place where he can be alone and think. – Marshall McLuhan • Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over. – Arthur Erickson • Maybe I’ve been a small part of the democratisation of celebrity, because I’ve been fascinated by it, and when it started to happen to me to the very limited extent that it happens to writers in North America, I was exposed to people who had the disease of celebrity. People who had raging, raging, life-threatening celebrity, people who would be in danger if they were left alone on the street without their minders. It’s a great anthropological privilege to be there. – William Gibson • Mexico and the USA are friends, partners and allies and should continue to work together for competivity and development across North America. – Enrique Pena Nieto • Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America. – Tom G. Palmer • Most independent filmmakers in Britain and North America work for commercial crews and then have their own projects when they’ve got enough money saved up to do so. – Ann Macbeth • Most people don’t know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America. – Denis Leary • Much of the big media outlets in North America are owned by arms manufacturers, like Westinghouse, or G.E. [General Electric]. That’s unacceptable. So we’re not getting editorial policy, we’re not getting a vision of truth. People just don’t know what is going on anymore, and that’s really dangerous stuff. – Denis Halliday • My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America. – Steve Kanaly • My political position is that I’m happy to be alive and in North America. – David Letterman • Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. – Edwidge Danticat • Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. “What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America” is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, “our Original Sin. – James W. Loewen • Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It’s better than gasoline or diesel. It’s cleaner, it’s cheaper, and it’s domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America. – T. Boone Pickens • New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the only international city on the continent of North America. There were all different races and everything was celebrated, and it was a place of difference, and everybody was different and it was so odd, the minute that America took over, the minute that the Louisiana territory became part of the United States of America, instantly you were either black or white. There was no nuance. and so a free man of color who could own property was suddenly not allowed to. – John Guare • New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So does everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world. – Federico Garcia Lorca • North America is not altogether to blame with regard to her Indians. If the Indian had been more susceptible to higher culture, violence and arms would not have been used against him, as is now the case. – Fredrika Bremer • North America makes a ton of movies and there’s a ton of movies that are exceptional. – Joel Edgerton • North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge. – Nadia Giosia • Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. – Arthur Erickson • Obviously, I would have been happier if Canada had not been conquered in the past by the English, if this part of North America had remained French, but you can’t rewrite history. – Jean Chretien • Of course, fairies are all imported in North America. We have no native fairies. The Little People do not long survive importation unless they go to California and grow large and beautiful, but haven’t much flavour, like the fruit and the film stars. – Robertson Davies • On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us – Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America. – David Suzuki • One might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It would be as if every vertebrate in North America somehow felt drawn to a particular house in Peoria, Illinois. Are we really that interesting? – Seth Shostak • One of my recent acquisitions. It is called a medicine bag, from one of the native tribes of North America. A fascinating people, highly skilled in the use of plants’ power. They too understand nature’s essence as divine. So much so that they do not think it is man’s place to own the land at all. Imagine that – think of all the wars we would have missed! – Maryrose Wood • One of the reasons churches in North America have trouble guiding people about money is that the church’s economy is built on consumerism. If churches see themselves as suppliers of religious goods and services and their congregants as consumers, then offerings are ‘payment.’ – Doug Pagitt • Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well. – Dick Pound • Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined. – Reza Aslan • Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America. – Edmund Burke • People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it’s actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error. – Richard Dawkins • President Bush has embarked on an eight-day tour of the continent. He hopes this one goes better than the other ones he’s made recently. Obviously he’s not doing that well in North America [on screen: ‘36% Approval’], his South American trip had a few bumps [on screen: ‘Angry mobs of torch-carrying bumps’], Europe seems to think the president doesn’t care what they think, but hey, who cares what they think? They could at least thank him for what he’s done for their burning effigy industry. – Stephen Colbert • Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America, they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I’d say Quebec city is the most beautiful city in North America I’ve seen. – Sebastian Bach • Since the beginning, the US presidents (all of European stock, of course), had been promoting slavery, extermination campaigns against the native population of North America, barbaric wars of aggression against Mexico, and other Latin American countries, the Philippines, etc. Has anything changed now? I highly doubt it. – Andre Vltchek • So we have a tremendous amount of water where the two greatest rivers in North America meet. And then all of the tributaries from the various areas come in there also. It’s also highly populated. So we’re working a number of water rescues. We’re working extremely hard to keep people safe and make sure that we’re keeping the rule of law and keep people warm. It’s been pretty cold. – Jay Nixon • So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else available. Western civilization not only provides a bit of life, a pinch of liberty and the occasional pursuance of happiness, it’s also the only thing that’s ever tried to. Our civilization is the first in history to show even the slightest concern for average, undistinguished, none-too-commendable people like us. – P. J. O’Rourke

• Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the roots of orchids, jaguars walked the river’s edge; around them eight hundred species of trees stood, more than are native to all of North America; and a thousand species of butterflies, 6 percent of the entire world fauna, waited for the dawn. – E. O. Wilson • South America had been an island continent, far bigger and far more diverse than Australia, for tens of millions of years before the Isthmus of Panama rose just a couple of million years ago. The resulting flood of North American mammals across the new land bridge corresponds in time with the decimation of the native South American fauna. In fact, most large mammals generally considered distinctly South American… are all recent migrants from North America. – Stephen Jay Gould • Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the ‘cities of the world’, then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute ‘the rural areas of the world’. – Lin Biao • The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s. – Jared Diamond • The Arctic Ocean encircles with a belt of eternal ice the desert confines of Siberia and North America–the uttermost limits of the Old and New worlds, separated by the narrow, channel, known as Behring’s Straits. – Eugene Sue • The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don’t think there’s anything like it in North America. – Ben Crenshaw • The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It’s a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are. – Sara Paretsky • The biggest disease in North America is busyness. – Thomas Merton • The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got less than his share, and as a producer gave least. The black American today shows us the perfect parasite image – the black tick under the delusion that he is progressing because he rides on the udder of the fat, three-stomached cow that is white America. – Malcolm X • The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such foolishness as considering himself a black ‘Democrat,’ a black ‘Republican,’ a black ‘Conservative,’ or a black ‘Liberal’ …when a ten-million black vote bloc could be the deciding balance of power in American politics, because the white man’s vote is almost always evenly divided. – Malcolm X • The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years. The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue, Chapman wrote. All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead. – Philip K. Chapman • The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive. – Edgar Allan Poe • The climate of this planet has been changing since God put the planet here. It will always change, and the warming in the last 10 years is not much difference than the warming we saw in the 1930s and other decades. And, lets not forget we are at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe. – James Spann • The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references. – Susan Sontag • The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat. – Ann Veneman • The dream of romantic love is taken more seriously in North America than it is anywhere else in the world, which is why we believe in fidelity and why we believe in infidelity as well. It is also, of course, what makes our divorce rate as high as it is. Falling in love at first sight and instant gratification are part of the world in which we live, so there are people who believe adamantly in fidelity. They just don’t believe in it for long. – Merle Shain • The feeling of New Orleans is so pervasive. It’s such a strange and decadent and enchanted embrace that that city has. There’s a dark magic present. It’s no wonder that it’s been the hot bed for so much vampiric folklore. The city has got an ancient quality. It’s one of the oldest cities in North America. – Daniel Gillies • The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we’ve realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price. – Dan Miller • The only reason so many are so pissed off at the US is because they see North America as promoting a ‘bad deal’ for its own masses, not because it is ruining the rest of the world! – Andre Vltchek • The people of North America, at this time, expect a revisal and reformation of the American Governments, and are better disposed to submit to it than ever they were, or perhaps ever will be again.97. This is therefore the proper and critical time to reform the American governments upon a general, constitutional, firm, and durable plan; and if it is not done now, it will probably every day grow more difficult, till at last it becomes impracticable. – Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet • The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide – the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War. – Chris Bohjalian • The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem. – Dan Lipinski • There are more Muslims in North America then Jews Now. – Dan Rather • There were incredibly complex societies already existing in North America long before Europeans arrived. So many people think that before European contact it was just Natives huddling around a fire, waiting for civilization to come save them. But that was not the case. – Joseph Boyden • These Muslim Brotherhood fronts – the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Islamic Society of North America – we need accountability for what these groups are doing and need to understand that in many ways they are as toxic and dangerous for America as are their violent counterparts, which have exactly the same goal that they do, which is imposing the Shariah doctrine on all of us. – Frank Gaffney • This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing. – Paul Cellucci • 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 • Through the Young Men’s Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries. – Fritz Sauckel • Time is running out fast. I think we have maybe a few months — it could be weeks, it could be days — before there is a material risk of a fundamentally unnecessary default by a country like Spain or Italy which would be a financial catastrophe dragging the European banking system and North America with it. So they have to act now. – Willem Buiter • To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America. – Peter Munk • Unless legal and illegal immigration is halted and reversed, European First World nations across all of Europe from Spain to Russia, North America, Australia and New Zealand – will be destroyed and have their very culture and civilisation changed to that of the Third World. Immigration is now the single most important issue facing all First World nations, and will determine whether Western Civilisation continues to exist or not. – Arthur Kemp • Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments. – Bernard Bailyn • We [American nation] can now, by virtue of new technology, actually get all the energy we need in North America without having to go to the – the Arabs or the Venezuelans or anyone else. That’s why my policy starts with a very robust policy to get all that energy in North America, become energy-secure. – Mitt Romney • We are also looking to Canada as we continue to integrate the North American energy market. – Paul Cellucci • We Canadians need to go beyond what any previous government has done in terms of our diplomatic network, our support for companies to export, trade and invest beyond North America, and our contribution to the safety of the international system, through defence, development, international organizations, and so forth. – Chris Alexander • We had very good discussions on current security challenges and NATO’s continued adaptation to meet them. Canada is a committed ally and a capable contributor to international security. We appreciate your quick decision to deploy forces, planes and ships to strengthen our collective defence in view of Russia’s aggressive actions in Ukraine, as well as your contribution to the international anti-ISIL coalition. Canada plays a major part in our decision-making and helps keep the vital bond between Europe and North America strong. – Jens Stoltenberg • We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America. – Howard Schultz • We have the greatest resource universities in the world, the only place in the world. We have the most productive workforce in the world. We have the most agile venture capitalists in the world. We have a situation where right now in the United States of America, we are near energy independent. North America is beginning to be the epicenter of energy. What is it that makes people think that this is not going to be the American century? I don’t get it. – Joe Biden • We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that’s emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada. And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis. – Alan Bersin • We thought [with Alix MacKenzie], if those are the kinds of pots from every culture that interest us, why would we think that it should be any different in mid-North America 20th century? And we decided then that our work would center around that sort of utilitarian pottery, and that’s what I’ve done ever since. – Warren MacKenzie • We want to build the most entrepreneurial postsecondary system in North America. That’s why we’re pleased that academic institutions, like Algonquin College, University of Ottawa and Carlton University are working to make that happen through the Campus-Linked Accelerator program. They are helping nurture our business visionaries and igniting their entrepreneurial spirit, helping them to succeed and to expand our economy. – Bob Chiarelli • We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities. – Paul Cellucci • We will achieve North America energy independence by 2020, by taking full advantage of our oil, our gas, our coal, our renewables and our nuclear power. Abundant, inexpensive, domestic energy will not only create energy jobs, it will bring back manufacturing jobs. – Mitt Romney • Well what are our geopolitical objectives? First, that North America be peaceful, prosperous, dominated by the United States. Second, that no nation be able to approach the United States militarily … Those are the goals. It’s very simple. We achieve that by making certain that all conflict takes place in the Eastern Hemisphere so we don’t have conflict here. – George Friedman • Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it’s incumbent upon us to. – Dan Aykroyd • We’re all already aware of boobies; it is the general state of most people in North America! THANKS, MEDIA AND THE MALE GAZE – Ryan North • We’re seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people. – Lori Lansens

• We’ve seen progressive rock all over the world, in South America, Europe, Asia, across the US and North America and Australia. There’s huge audiences for this stuff. For me it’s always been there and it’s just a matter of time before the people have more of the means to spread the word. – John Petrucci • What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, or Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II. – Dave Barry • When [Bill] Clinton came along, it sort of moderated a little bit, but Clinton had a different device for breaking unions called NAFTA [North America Free Trade Agreement]. Because the government was entirely lawless, employers could exploit NAFTA to threaten union organizers with transfer. It’s illegal, but when you’ve got a lawless government, it doesn’t matter if it’s illegal. I think the number of union drives blocked increased by about 50 percent. – Noam Chomsky • When I came to North America, it was hard. It was hard to understand, hard to get someone to understand me. I only knew Russian. I studied French in school, but it didn’t help. I forgot most of that. – Pavel Datsyuk • When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or sexually transmitted diseases, national frontiers are simple irrelevant. Toxins don’t stop for customs inspections and microbes don’t carry passports. North America became a water and free-trade zone long before NAFTA loosened up the market in goods. – Benjamin Barber • When the Europeans first arrived in North America, the average depth of the topsoil was 53.34 cm (1¾ ft) and it was rich in the types of symbiotic organisms necessary for plant roots to absorb minerals from the soil. Today North America averages around 15.24 cm (6 in) of topsoil and most if it is exhausted of nutrients and much is devoid of life. – Thom Hartmann • When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left – the best time of year for flowers and birds in North America. – Robert Bateman • Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven’t had it easy in North America, where negative myths prevail. Fear-based stereotypes and use of public lands for cattle ranching have resulted in Mother Nature’s dogs being aggressively persecuted to the point of near extinction. – Zoe Helene • White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It’s called world history. – Michael Kimmel • With Islamophobic tendencies in Europe and North America it is quite possible that Islamic leaders could be charged with ‘political genocide’. An extremist American pastor in a small Florida church held a trial that convicted the Koran of encouraging the murder of non-Muslims and of being responsible for the 9/11 attacks. It is this sort of outlook that would be encouraged to claim that Islam embodied ‘political genocide’, a development that would have many negative effects on inter-civilisational relations within and among countries. – Richard A. Falk • With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. – Arthur Erickson • Yes, I’m an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn’t an extremist and I’ll show you one who needs psychiatric attention. – Malcolm X • You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. “Huh,” “hun,” and “hi!” in their various modulations, together with “sure,” “guess so,” “that so?” and “nuts!” will meet almost any contingency. – Ian Fleming • You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You can’t hate the land, your motherland, the place that you come from, and we can’t hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves. The Black man in the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central America, South America, and in the Caribbean—is the best example of how one can be made, skillfully, to hate himself that you can find anywhere on this earth. – Malcolm X

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