"We need a common European tax policy that closes these tax loopholes. We need a common European social policy that prevents social dumping. We need an effective securing of our external borders and a smart way of fighting terrorism. Acting as a state within a national framework is no longer enough. The German chancellor has completely failed to convey that throughout her years in power. We need a re-start for Europe."

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Martin Schulz

#Smart Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Acting Quotes

“We are the living planet!”
“Let's all sign petitions to make Earthships and organic home gardens the normality.”
“They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.”

Source : Christoph Becker, Julia Burckhardt, Georges Seurat, Kunsthaus Zürich, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2009). “Georges Seurat: figure in space”, Hatje Cantz Pub
“I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.”
“We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past.... The Bible's "Israel" is a literary fiction... Not only have Adam and Eve and the flood story passed over to mythology, but we can no longer talk about a time of the patriarchs. There never was a "United Monarchy" in history and it is meaningless to speak of pre-exilic prophets and their writings... The Bible deals with the origin traditions of a people who never existed as such”
“And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?”
“Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability that come with deprivation of a securely encompassing community, we have sought to quell the vulnerability through our possessions.”
“Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?”

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