"I think we have to reflect on a treaty change that would permit more than surveillance, with recommendations and appropriate sanctions. When recommendations are not followed and sanctions prove ineffective, European institutions should have the capacity to impose the necessary decisions on a particular country."

-- Jean-Claude Trichet

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“For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.”
“I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed my writing skills, I guess.”

Source : "Guns N' Roses DJ Ashba: On Overcoming Obstacles with a Guitar". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.
“To a large extent the evil-doers have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man who is man only in form. This is the extent to which the process of dehumanization has advanced.”
“Lack of charisma can be fatal.”
“If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.”
“But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression”
“Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.”

Source : Jean Toomer (1980). “The Wayward and the Seeking: A Collection of Writings by Jean Toomer”, Washington : Howard University Press
“My first instinct was Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) cannot be president of the United States. She needs to lose because it's the thing she wants most on the planet Earth.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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