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101 " Contrary to many theories of imperialism, this greatest of all empires did not revolve around an export of capital to the Third World. "
― Thomas Sowell , Conquests and Cultures: An International History
102 " the idea of separated powers and of rules governing all the contenders for power became imbedded in British tradition over the centuries. "
103 " Not all former British colonies established or preserved British governmental structures or principles, or the freedom based on them. But the line of demarcation between those that did and those that did not largely coincided with the line between free people and those living under various forms of despotism. "
104 " Hundreds of families throughout New England responded to appeals to donate either 12 shillings per family or a peck of grain to help support the fledgling little college established near the Charles River, early in the colony's history, by John Harvard.:`° "
105 " building and patronizing churches and schools, both of which were outstanding by the standards of the times. "
106 " freedom of the press from prior censorship was instituted in 1695. "
107 " The era of mass education and the standardization of the English language left such expressions as marks of uneducated people in the American South "
108 " Britain's iron ore and coal deposits were located near to one another and both were located near the sea"-an "
109 " those parts of the British Isles without the advantage of coal deposits or ports, industrialization was as handicapped as in other countries. "
110 " Woodlands in Britain increased in area by more than one-fourth between 1873 and 1911.87 "
111 " nineteenth century economic development was "the development of continents instead of coast lines."98 "
112 " enabling Germans to become major producers of steel and with it one of the leading industrial powers of the world. "
113 " the railroad and the steamship affected not only industry and commerce, but also the lives of millions of ordinary people. "
114 " but cheap transportation made all these things available to the masses.'° "
115 " more than a third of Europe's land mass consists of islands and peninsulas, only 2 percent of Africa's land mass consists of islands andpeninsulas. "
116 " much of tropical Africa consists of high plateaus-almost the entire continent is more than 1.000 feet above sea-level and half the continent is more than 2,500 feet above sea-level"-African rivers must plunge greater vertical distances to reach the sea, making them less navigable en route. "
117 " 90 percent of all deaths from malaria in the world occur in sub-Saharan Africa.45 "
118 " In the Portuguese colony of Angola, during the closing decades of the nineteenth century, no contract laborer who went to the offshore island of Sao Tome was ever known to have returned alive. "
119 " An estimated 60,000 out of the 80,000 Herero were in fact killed before the general was recalled to Berlin.122 "
120 " attained democracy, as brutal dictatorships took over, led to the cynical phrase: "One man, one vote-one time. "