"We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn't need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen."

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Source : "Romania demands equality - Europe - International Herald Tribune" by Nicholas Wood, www.nytimes.com. August 29, 2006.

Traian Basescu

#Country Quotes #Believe Quotes #Past Quotes

“There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes', and he said 'Well, what happened?' and I said 'I was just carrying out your orders. You told us to connect with the electorate, so I did.”

Source : "As David Cameron poses with blacked up dancers - the worst political PR blunders" by Simon Keegan, www.mirror.co.uk. October 14, 2014.
“Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.”
“Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.”

Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1912). “In Desert and Wilderness”, p.138, Library of Alexandria
“A situation where a solution to a stakeholder problem is imposed by a government agency or the courts must be seen as a managerial failure.”

Source : R. Edward Freeman, Jeffrey S. Harrison, Andrew C. Wicks (2007). “Managing for Stakeholders: Survival, Reputation, and Success”, p.55, Yale University Press
“Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.”
“and someday, fat innkeepers will bow to me.”
“Her magic formula for dealing with children is ignoring all faults and accenting tiny virtues. She says, "Instead of telling Tommy day in and day out that he is the naughtiest boy in the United States of America, which could very well be true, take an aspirin and comment on his neatly tied shoes. Almost anybody would rather be known for expert shoe-tying than for kicking the cat." She always tells whiners how charming they are--bullies how brave--bad sports how good--sneaks how honest!”
“There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.”

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