"If we say leaders are incompetent, we are going to fuel extremist, populist, xenophobic and ultra-nationalist parties."

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Jose Manuel Barroso

#Inspiring Quotes #Party Quotes #Leader Quotes

“It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak.”
“There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.”

Source : 1981 A Fourth Innings with Cardus.
“There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.”
“You can't tell a kid that it's time to exercise; that's a turn-off...you have to say 'Let's go to the park and have some fun.' Then you get them to do some running, play on the swings, practice on the balance beam, basically get a full workout disguised as play.”
“She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.”

Source : Susan Wiggs (2016). “Susan Wiggs The Calhoun Chronicles Books 1-3: The Charm School\The Horsemaster's Daughter\Halfway to Heaven”, p.70, MIRA
“I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.”
“The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.”

Source : Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan
“We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in process, and ultimately you can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.”

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