"Solidarity is the fundamental idea of European cooperation. If a country feels itself to be militarily threatened and calls for soldiers, weapons and sanctions, then that's what it gets. When governments say they need money from the structural funds to stabilize their economy, that's what they get. But you can't cherry pick solidarity."

-- Martin Schulz

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“It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.”
“I don't know anybody that doesn't own a gun.”

Source : "Manchin, NRA talking" by Manu Raju and John Bresnahan, www.politico.com. March 23, 2013.
“Although I studied, I have never been taught paintingbecause I possess in my psychological makeup a peculiarity that resents any outside interference.”
“The greatest field of photography, for the literary interpretation of life, consists, to my mind, in its latent power to create, as it were, death for a single second. Any thing or person is, at will, made to die for a moment of time so immeasurably small that the return to life is effected without consciousness of the great adventure. (1928)”
“The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.”
“No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.”
“In order for him to believe sincerely in eternity, others had to share in this belief, because a belief that no one else shares is called schizophrenia.”

Source : Victor Pelevin (2002). “Homo Zapiens”, p.12, Penguin
“The strong man, the positive, decisive man who has a program and is determined to carry it out, cuts his way to his goal regardless of difficulties. It is the discouraged man who turns aside and takes a crooked path.”

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