"We must all assume out responsibilities to take the country forward."

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Source : "Lucas Papademos sworn in as Greece's prime minister" by Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2011.

Lucas Papademos

#Country Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Assuming Quotes

“The first thing a hurdler learns is how to fall.”
“They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.”

Source : James L. Buckley (2010). “Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State”, p.247, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.”
“Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.”
“Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation”
“I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.”
“Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.”
“In a dynamical system, or a massively complex dynamical system such as we live in, when there is a moment of bifurcation, which is the technical mass jargon for â€œthe snapâ€, that is the only time you get to do anything about the evolution of the system. So according to this self-inflating view, we live at an especially important special moment in history where when we think something or do something it has actually an enormous effect on the future. What we do has some influence on the creation of the future more than at other times in history.”

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