"For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to assume that this is all over; but it very rash to do so."

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Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 21, 1989.

William Pfaff

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“Lucky people generate their own good fortune via four basic principles. They are skilled at creating their own chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.”
“That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.”
“Most one-run games are lost, not won.”
“My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?”
“When I think of my career, I can't help but think of the kid with his ball, falling in love.”
“The sex with Mandy was good, but it wasn't like warm apple pie.”

Source : "Wilmer Valderrama reunites with ex Mandy Moore", www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2015.
“Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.”

Source : Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr
“For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.”

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