"I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account."

-- Raymond Barre

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“But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And since there's no gene for coolness or confidence, then being uncool and unconfident are just bad habits, which can be changed with enough guidance and will power.”
“All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.”
“I get $13 a week now, because I'm 13.”
“On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.”
“They've got a great team, I really like them. They're a young team, and they've done what the Twins did in that division a few years ago. This is what happens when you get a core group of guys and let them play with each other for three, four years. You get a special bunch. They're having fun you can see it.”
“The Bolsheviks did not seize power; they picked it up.”
“When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context.”
“So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself”

Source : Stephen Spender (1966). “World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender”, p.314, Univ of California Press

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