"Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe."

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Jean Monnet

“I know how I like to be treated, so I always start by saying, 'Could you give me a moment of your time, I know you're very busy,' and usually, they will.”
“What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.”
“Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some feeling that there is something larger - and there really has to be, because plainly you aren't sufficient to the situation.”
“I would want people to take away this idea that sometimes people's problems or neuroses are really the things that are kind of a blessing in disguise, and even though there's sometimes pain associated with these things that sometimes in the face of adversity with obstacles to overcome, people can really kind of soar and find their higher selves.”

Source : "Tony Shalhoub Says Goodbye to Monk". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. August 4, 2009.
“I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.”
“...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence.”

Source : Robert Neelly Bellah, Steven M. Tipton (2006). “The Robert Bellah Reader”, p.24, Duke University Press
“No matter how righteous you are, no matter how carefully you cultivate the companionship of the Holy Ghost, there are vast amounts of knowledge which you need to acquire and which you are not going to receive through revelation.”
“Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century.”

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