"To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity."

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Source : "Like it or not, Europe is paying the transaction costs of diversity" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2006.

Timothy Garton Ash

#Creativity Quotes #Europe Quotes #Diversity Quotes

“Even God cannot change the past.”

Source : In Aristotle 'Nicomachaean Ethics' bk. 6, sect. 2, 1139b
“Ultimately the most challenging thing, always, is to just be convincing”
“I like to exercise. I always walk an hour a day, I swim 250 days a year and I do balancing exercises which take me an hour.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There's a certain balance between finding an opportunity to do what you really enjoy and getting caught up in the flattery of people wanting you to do things.”
“Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs.”
“There's something totally crazy about this.”

Source : "Bernstein on NSA: 'We need an answer'" by Tal Kopan, www.politico.com. October 28, 2013.
“I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.”
“There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.”

Source : Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.289, Cambridge University Press

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