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The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.

— Christopher Dawson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe.

— Dario Fo

Basically, on the question of Europe, I want to see a social Europe, a cohesive Europe, a coherent Europe, not a free market Europe.

— Jeremy Corbyn

The Mediterranean is always just white, white, white.

— Cy Twombly

Permanent bonds of culture began to be formed between the extreme East and the extreme West of Europe by intermarriage, by commerce, by the admission of the nobles of Byzantium within the orders of chivalry.

— Joseph Jacobs

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

— Victor Hugo

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

— Stephen Gardiner

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

✗Opposing Perspectives

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

— John Henrik Clarke

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

— Thomas Jefferson

The idea of the European community is never face a war again.

— Nana Mouskouri