"People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog."

-- Wayne Gretzky

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“Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.”
“all the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the idea persists that the natives speak the language just to show off or be difficult.”

Source : Olivia de Havilland (2016). “Every Frenchman Has One”, p.31, Crown Archetype
“First of all, never play macho man with the market. Second, never overtrade.”
“I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?”
“What makes this so remarkable is that this is the first time the United States is accountable for its record on torture with regard to some of the practices implemented after 9/11.”
“You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the letters are meaningless, and all you hear is the rain. You would like to play the piano, but the rain comes to sit alongside and play an accompaniment. And then the dry weather returns, which is to say there is steam and bright light. People age quickly.”
“I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.”
“The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.”

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