"I do not want Greece to become the negative paradigm for the others - i.e., "make sure you follow exactly what we tell you, otherwise you will be like Greece.""

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Source : "An interview with Antonis Samaras, Greek prime minister, on austerity and unrest". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.washingtonpost.com. September 14, 2012.

Antonis Samaras

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“Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.”
“I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.”
“To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.”
“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.”
“Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.”

Source : "Surviving Anxiety". www.theatlantic.com. January/February 2014.
“There's a place in Botswana where there are 100,000 elephants living in a single population. Think of the amount of space they need. Remember, the United States would fit in Africa three times over and there would still be space. That's how big Africa is.”
“Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.”
“If we are absolutely grounded in the absolute love of God that protects us from nothing even as it sustains us in all things, then we can face all things with courage and tenderness and touch the hurting places in others and in ourselves with love.”

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