"It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way."

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Source : "Farewell, Sarajevo" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.

Paddy Ashdown

#Stupid Quotes #Way Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“This is the first great problem of modern democracy...how to get a fair living by reasonable hours of work leaving enough leisure for both childhood and manhood.”
“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!”
“Israelâ€™s days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.”
“Recovery is a bit like an addiction; you take it day by day. If you set yourself too many goalposts, you'll have problems.”
“People assume Wall Street is a certain culture and tech is a certain culture. But if you look at the (gender) numbers at the top of (those) industries, they don't vary very much. I think in finance, women hold 19 percent of the top jobs, and women are 21 percent of the leaders in nonprofits.”
“The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.”
“Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.”
“When a decision is taken belatedly, its execution inevitably leads to haste.”

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