"We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left."

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Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Pierre Laval

#Europe Quotes #Trying Quotes #Holding On Quotes

“If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.”
“The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.”
“Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.”
“I don't believe that it's inconsistent to be suspicious of people and also be totally comfortable with deploying the technology, because you know its fractal potential. It's a vote for politics. It's a vote for the will to politics. There will be people, a one percent of people, that can use this stuff effectively, develop it, implement it. That's why it's necessary. That's why civilization exists, so those few people can exercise incredible techniques.”

Source : Source: motherboard.vice.com
“People with big personalities are best in the center of the table. They can help carry the conversation from that place.”
“The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered to do it. Torture corrodes the mind of the torturer.”

Source : James Risen (2014). “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The dreamer dies, but never dies the dream”

Source : Dana Burnet (1915). “Poems”
“I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.”

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