"The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century."

-- Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#Europe Quotes #Building Quotes #Century Quotes

“Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.”

Source : 1994 On Syrian President Hafez Assad's complaint that he had been put off by a hostile question in a news conference shared with President Clinton. In US News and World Report,19 Dec.
“America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.”

Source : "Anthropology and Politics". Book by Ernest Gellner, 1995.
“I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.”
“Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.”
“The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.”
“When some of the gangs got involved with the drug trade, particularlythe crack cocaine trade, and the lethal violence started to flare up in the '80s, then there was a great deal of public attention on gangs and a great deal of concern about what was going on in these social groups.”
“All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.”
“My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.”

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