"Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks."

-- Richard Curtis

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“I'm not so sure liberal democracy as we know it has reached its terminus. It's clear though, that many have genuinely lost confidence in the Australian political class. One reason is that we like to place enormous burdens of expectations on modern political leaders. To be sure such expectations aren't always honest. Just as we want better public services but object to paying the higher taxes that would make them possible, we often want leadership but only if there aren't hard choices with real consequences.”
“For now I ask no more Than the justice of eating.”
“What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.”
“But words are more powerful than anything.”
“All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?”
“If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history.”
“And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose.”
“If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.”

Source : "Interview: EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.

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