"Perhaps I am following in the footsteps of FranÃ§ois Mitterrand, who really did want to shape Europe. My predecessors, by contrast, thought it was best to say nothing at all and to keep all their options open. That may sound like a tactical approach, but perhaps it was simply because they didn't have any ideas for Europe at all."

-- Emmanuel Macron

#Contrast Quotes #Footsteps Quotes

“Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.”
“People who believe in evolution in biology often believe in creationism in government. In other words, they believe that the universe and all the creatures in it could have evolved spontaneously, but that the economy is too complicated to operate without being directed by politicians.”
“In great things it is enough even to have willed.”
“Women like silent men. They think they're listening.”
“Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The ancients put that thought in the form of a prayer. They said, â€œFrom the cowardice that shrinks from new truth, from the laziness that is content with half truth, from the arrogance that thinks it has all truth â€“ O God of truth, deliver us.”
“Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.”

Source : Atul Gawande (2010). “Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance”, p.246, Profile Books
“The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.”
“Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers.”

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