"Real freedom for people can only exist whenever there is security and independence."

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Source : Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference, Maximos Mansion, Athens, Greece, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

Alexis Tsipras

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“This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could the very air that I breath.”
“Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.”

Source : Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.31, Delphi Classics
“I must have just dreamed that about Liverpool playing 3-4-3. What do people think that was, a bit of luck? A British coach playing 3-4-3? A foreign coach doing that would be a tactical genius. I imagine people think I fell into that system through a stroke of luck or something... it took some thought. I didn't just throw them out there.”
“Justice is a machine which, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.”
“You know how sometimes department stores have these things where, if you win, you get 10 minutes to go in and take anything you want from the store? That's basically what I'm doing. I'm running in and just trying to grab as many characters as possible before they pull the plug on me.”
“Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.”
“We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.”

Source : Gerda Lerner (1998). “Why History Matters: Life and Thought”, p.205, Oxford University Press on Demand
“Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion.... Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space.”

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