"European policy is always an interplay of rationality and emotion."

-- Martin Schulz

#Emotion Quotes #Policy Quotes #Rationality Quotes

“Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order.”
“I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.”
“I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.”
“I was just working in the shop and all of a sudden something just triggered in me and I started shaking. And then I walked back into the house and my wife asked, 'What's the matter?' and I said 'I don't feel good.' And tears - uncontrollable tears - was coming out of my eyes. And she said, 'What's the matter?' And I said 'I just thought about that execution I did two days ago, and everybody else's that I was involved with.' And what it was something triggered within and it just - everybody - all of these executions all of a sudden sprung forward.”
“[T]he degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system ... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism are properties that theories have in virtue of their relation to the whole structure of scientific beliefs taken collectively. A measure of conservatism or simplicity would be a metric over global properties of belief systems.”
“I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it when I get out there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit.”
“Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.”
“I think that we just take our time with everything. We don't feel that there's a rush to become something that we're not yet. We like to really feel things out and know what we're doing. We hadn't ever really played a lot of shows live after we released our EP, and that's when we started doing it - we started playing out live consistently right after we released our EP and we got a new drummer because Shannyn [Sossamon] had quit.”

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