"Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Bernard-Henri Levy

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“He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.”
“Such phantom blossoms palely shining Over the lifeless boughs of Time.”
“This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children.”
“It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery.”
“The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity.”
“Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.”
“For recovery, I think it's a big deal to eat within a half-hour after you exercise. Otherwise I just try to put carbs into my system before I swim and then load up on the protein after. I don't count calories. Whether it's Sour Patch Kids or Reese's or a bag of chips, if I feel like eating it, I'm going to eat it.”
“Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.”

Source : "Together we can beat the gangs" by Iain Duncan Smith, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2011.

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