"Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations."

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Source : "EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.

Peter Mandelson

#Europe Quotes #People Quotes #Priorities Quotes

“There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.”
“A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.”
“My God, it transformed me. My life changed.”
“You might argue that I make the rounds no matter what year it is, but sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls.”
“Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.”
“It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.”

Source : Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.122, Egmont UK
“A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.”
“Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.”

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