"Climate action is central for the future of our planet."

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Source : "EU sets targets of 40% carbon cut and 27% share of renewables by 2030". Live, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2014.

Jose Manuel Barroso

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“Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.”

Source : Giacomo Meyerbeer, Heinz Becker, Gudrun Becker (1989). “Giacomo Meyerbeer, a life in letters”, Timber Pr
“American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.”

Source : George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press
“The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders.”

Source : John Lawson (1860). “The History of Carolina: Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of that Country, Together with the Present State Thereof and a Journal of a Thousand Miles Traveled Through Several Nations of Indians, Giving a Particular Account of Their Customs, Manners, &c., &c”, p.17
“Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.”
“We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.”
“The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss.”
“There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.”

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