"It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one."

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Source : "Full interview with Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission". www.euractiv.com. February 20, 2004.

Romano Prodi

#Perfect One Quotes #Becoming Quotes #Constitution Quotes

“Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size.”
“My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.”
“It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.”
“There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.”

Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
“Yet, O thou beautiful rose! Queen rose so fair and sweet. What were lover or crown to thee, without the clay at thy feet?”
“I never had time to do anything for myself. I've always had to subordinate my energy and time to the demands of my husband and children at any given moment. And now old age has crept up on me and I have used up all my mental and physical strength on my family ...”
“I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.”
“I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.”

Source : "Anderson Cooper 360°", transcripts.cnn.com. January 5, 2012.

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