"And a united Europe will also manage to send hundreds of thousands of migrants, who don't have the right to asylum, back to their homelands. Though that, given the number of flights necessary, would be of a scale reminiscent of the Berlin Airlift."

-- Paolo Gentiloni

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“No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.”
“Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.”
“What whites have rarely had to think aboutâ€”because being the dominant group, we are so used to having our will done, with a little effort at leastâ€”is that maybe the point is not victory, however much we all wish to see justice attained and injustice routed. Maybe our redemption comes from the struggle itself. Maybe it is in the effort, the striving for equality and freedom that we become human.”

Source : Tim Wise (2011). “White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son”, p.269, Soft Skull Press
“Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.”

Source : Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.55, Columbia University Press
“And that, quite simply, is the issue. We live in a finite world with finite resources. Although it may sometimes seem quite big, earth is really very small - a tiny blue and green oasis of life in a cold universe.”
“A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The future is not out there in front of us, but inside us.”

Source : Joanna Macy (1983). “Despair and personal power in the nuclear age”, New Society Pub
“The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.”

Source : "A Few Words About Robert Hughes (1938-2012)" by John Seed, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2012.

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