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Emmanuel Macron

"The story of my grandmother is that of a French woman from the provinces who through her perseverance and thirst for knowledge worked her way up to become the head of a school. She belonged to a generation that didn't travel much. But she believed in Europe and she wanted Europe. And she read a lot - she knew mythology, literature and the classics very well. She passed that on to me, along with the conviction that you can earn your own position in society."

-- Emmanuel Macron

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“Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.”
“We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.”

Source : Harry Kalven, Learned Hand (1967). “The Supreme Court as legislator: the contribution of an independent judiciary to civilization : an address”
“[School reports] were always pretty bad - I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn't try very hard.”
“What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.”

Source : Jean Gebser (1985). “The Ever-Present Origin”
“I'm such a product of my media diet... it's interesting that you say what I do is observational. It's observational as far as it goes - to the extent that I observe media closely. Kriota might have a better sense of this. I don't always have the best sense of how human nature works, but I certainly know how to dismantle representations of characters.”
“...as long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy very limited, if even meaningful.”
“And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.”
“I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.”

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