"In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains of competitiveness."

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Source : "Cnbc’s Chief International Correspondent Michelle Caruso-Cabrera Speaks With Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos". Interview with Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, www.cnbc.com. January 15, 2012.

Lucas Papademos

#Years Quotes #Effort Quotes #Gains Quotes

“Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.”
“I keep God first. He me to go out and act and be humble and keep it simple. God gave me this gift to bless the world. That's what I'm here to do.”

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“When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.”
“Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.”
“When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.”
“The monster likes to talk; he jumps into your head and opens your mouth, making it spout your deepest darkest deceptions. Making you say all the things you'd rather not say, at least not in mixed company." (Ellen Hopkins)”
“The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.”
“In the minds of many Western politicians, military interventions and air strikes appear to have become legitimate policy tools since the NATO attacks on Yugoslavia during the 1990s. That's how they intend to bring everyone into line who don't share the Western view of democratization of society and the liberalization of the economy. But there is no future for that kind of globalization.”

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