"I doubt that the evil spirits of the past, under which we in Europe have already suffered more than enough this century, have been banished for ever."

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Source : "Europe 'Needs Maastricht to Fend Off Past'". www.independent.co.uk. October 28, 1992.

Helmut Kohl

#Country Quotes #Past Quotes #Europe Quotes

“What you do is proof of what you believe.”
“Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.”

Source : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.128
“Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.”
“The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.”
“Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.”

Source : Robert Hewison (1987). “The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline”, Methuen
“I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.”
“I have good genes in my family, so we'll see just how long I'll be around.”
“With respect to phenomena like mass extinction, somebody might say why worry about it because in a geological perspective mass extinctions aren't so bad, they wipe out some things and then 10 million years down the road we get new and interesting objects.But I tell you mass extinctions are really awful for folks caught in the midst of them.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au

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