Quotes
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Vaclav Klaus

"This is crossing the Rubicon, after which there will be no more sovereign states in Europe with fully-fledged governments and parliaments which represent legitimate interests of their citizens, but only one State will remain. Basic things will be decided by a remote 'federal government' in Brussels and, for example, Czech citizens will be only a tiny particle whose voice and influence will be almost zero. ... We are against a European superstate."

-- Vaclav Klaus

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“The world's most famous and popular language is music.”

Source : "In South Korea, K-Pop Gets New King". WUNC interview, wunc.org. September 15, 2012.
“I tell people that the scales lie. You may have played basketball and weighed 175 pounds, with a 30-inch waist, back when you were in college. And you may still weigh 175 at 55. But you probably have a 35-inch waist and you've probably lost 30 or 40 pounds of muscle -- and gained 30 or 40 pounds of fat. The tape measure doesn't lie. Get that tape measure out and put it on your hips and your waist. Keep checking it. And keep exercising and cutting those calories down until that tape measure gets close to where you were in your prime.”
“When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.”

Source : "The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna". Book by Mahendranath Gupta, p. 465, 1942.
“Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.”
“Find your own technique.”
“I hate the calendar, which is both a circle and a straight line, a wheel and an arrow, grinding each anniversary, each day a reminder of my failures, my lost plans, unfulfilled objectives and wishes, the days aren't taken off the calendar, subtracted one by one, but added, another small stone accumulated, another foot moved ahead, the arrow flying forward instead of falling back to earth, when all I want is a complete stop.”
“We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.”
“If you want to serve the age, betray it.”

Source : "The Book of Judas". Book by Brendan Kennelly, 1991.

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