"If we were the problem, it would be very convenient - kick Greece out, everything's fine. What would happen to Spain, what about Portugal, what about Italy, what about the whole of the euro zone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice."

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Source : "CNN's Amanpour" with Christiane Amanpour, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2012.

George Papandreou

#Spain Quotes #Prejudice Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.”

Source : Virgil (1978). “Virgil: Georgics ; Aeneid I-VI. Eclogues”
“Failures give us wisdom. Your failures are just as valuable and rich with blessings. But you must be willing to contemplate them, ask what lesson they have for you, and apply it the next time around.”
“Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.”
“Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she wonâ€™t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back â€“ and at some point everyone looks back â€“ she will hear her heart saying, â€œWhat have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage; the certainty that you wasted your life.”
“I've always been driven to buck the system.”
“I had to take the driver's test twice. And they don't make you parallel park anymore, but you can't hit the curb when you're backing up. And I hit the curb.”
“While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.”

Source : Ryan Adams (2009). “Infinity Blues”, p.232, Akashic Books
“There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.”

Source : The Mind of Primitive Man preface (1938)

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