"I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership."

-- Mario Monti

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“It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don't on the whole... The danger begins when people start admiring politicians.”
“Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was lost through hopelessly obscure wording. When a person writes to the Veterans Administration, he is entitled to an easily understood, frank, and courteous reply. If our replies cannot be understood, they are not only not worth writing, but they simply create additional work.”
“People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.”

Source : "James Wolcott’s Old New York". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 25, 2011.
“Our lives can be considered a sacred quest. It is a quest which may have begun in this lifetime or many lifetimes before. It is a quest to find ourselves: who and what we really are. To do this we must first cease to pretend to be what we are not. We must cast away our Persona or mask. We must be prepared to confront the Shadow, that which we are and rather were not. Only then can we unify our conscious and unconscious minds and so give birth to the hidden Sun - the Self.”
“If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?”
“... true socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them, -- that is another matter ...”

Source : Lilian Whiting (1897). “The World Beautiful: Second series”
“Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.”
“Sometimes I haven't understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that God has a plan.”

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