"To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power."

-- Tahar Ben Jelloun

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Different Quotes

“Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.”
“It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.”
“Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which we dance on the brink of the abyss, the siren's melody that destroys our senses and paralyzes our wills.”
“Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output. Since most of our exogenous tax changes are in fact reductions, the more intuitive way to express this result is that tax cuts have very large and persistent positive output effects”
“For a wound to heal, you have to clean it out. Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Healing takes so much work. So much persistence. And so much patience. But every process has an end and an appointed term. Your healing will come... And like all created things, your worldly pain will die.”
“Sometimes all it takes is a kind word of encouragement to get your heroes back on the right path.”
“Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.”
“Dress for the story that youâ€™d like to have people know about you before you even open your mouth.”

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