"Helping to build a better-organized, fair and harmonious world: that idea lies at the heart of my conception of our country's role. Down through the centuries, France has provided answers to the great questions facing mankind. In continuing to do so, France is responding to a genuine demand, displaying leadership and influencing the course of events."

-- Jacques Chirac

#Leadership Quotes #Country Quotes #Lying Quotes

“If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.”
“I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.”
“I've not given up hope the belly-putter will be banned. The R and A and the USGA are looking at it right now.”

Source : "Leader Immelman comes under fire", www.cnn.com. May 20, 2004.
“But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.”

Source : Apuleius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Apuleius (Illustrated)”, p.668, Delphi Classics
“The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got their priorities wrong. They're just doing it to be artists rather than because they want to do it.”

Source : Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com.
“Superstars think like superstars long before the fans or the press anoint them.”

Source : John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.145, Diversion Books
“The willow tree plays the water like a harp.”
“I don't appreciate people who celebrate their dog's birthdays with "dog parties," and then invite their friends who don't even have dogs. I understand why people like dogs, and I think they definitely bring more to the table than cats or those godforsaken ferrets, but I don't think it's healthy for people to treat their dogs like they are real people.”

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