"The task for Germany today is - through its own policies and its own structural reforms, its own investments - to support the EU and the Commission... but every nation has to have the courage to broach such structural reforms and speak clearly about them without making people be afraid."

-- Sigmar Gabriel

#People Quotes #Support Quotes #Reform Quotes

“If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.”
“An owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees the the less it talks.”
“The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.”
“Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.”
“Iâ€™ve learnt from experience that a painting isnâ€™t finished when you put down your brush - thatâ€™s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.”
“Human beings did not have rights.Â Human beings created, from nothing, the domain of human rights.Â They called it up. They languaged it.Â They communicated it.Â Communication has that power.Â It has the power not only to represent and not only to evoke, but literally to bring something into being.Â Â And to know yourself, to know your self, as a context creator,Â is to transform the quality of your life.”
“I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism. I've come to the position that in the complete absence of any supporting data whatsover for the persistence of the individual in some spiritual form, it is necessary to operate under the provisional conclusion that there is no afterlife and then be ready to amend that if I find out otherwise.”
“We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.”

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