"I remain attached to my nation."

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Source : "Jospin rejects German Europe plan", www.cnn.com. May 28, 2001.

Lionel Jospin

“Hockey is a tough game.”
“What does the name Virgin mean? We are a company that likes to take on the giants. In too many businesses, these giants have had things their own way. We are going to have fun competing with them.”
“You have to do disappointment twice.”
“The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom...have been thrust out of all public employment...a race of merchants, and manufacturers and bankers and loan-jobbers and contractors have usurped their place.”
“When High and Mighty people want to make us believe that they possess some good quality which they in fact do not have, it is dangerous to show that you doubt them; because, by removing their hope of deceiving the world, you also remove their desire to perform the good acts that might have arisen from their very pretensions.”
“To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.”
“If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.”

Source : "I listen to color". TED Talks, www.ted.com. June 2012.
“As often as not our whole self...engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road in the town in which we lived as children, the movement of wind in grass. The things we shall take with us when we die will nearly all be small things.”

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