"The ability of the countries within the region to cooperate and establish good-neighborly relations ... will be an important criterion for evaluating their prospects of full integration with the European Union,"

-- Martti Ahtisaari

#Country Quotes #Important Quotes #Unions Quotes

“A film that aims low should not be praised for hitting that target.”
“Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.”
“We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.”

Source : Eden Phillpotts (1918). “A Shadow Passes”
“I think utopianism and eschatology are really two sides of the same coin. They both assume that some massively transformative event is going to happen that's going to completely change the nature of society. They only disagree on whether we get a happy ending or all die horribly. And so utopianism is on the wane right now because at the moment most of the plausible candidates for huge historical transformation look like they're going to kill us.”
“I have a kind of psychic invisibility. As long as I can stay scared, I can keep people from seeing me. That's what we have to count on.”
“One person's tattoo is nobody else's business”
“Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.”
“Taste speaks through a turn of phrase, a curl of the lip, a shrug of the shoulder: it makes an atmosphere.”

Source : Irving Howe (1995). “A Critic's Notebook”, Harvest Books

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