"The aim of the Constitutional treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this treaty is to be unreadable...The Constitution aimed to be clear, whereas this treaty had to be unclear. It is a success."

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Source : "Dominc Lawson: Pessimism is Brown's enemy on Europe". www.independent.co.uk. October 16, 2007.

Karel De Gucht

#Constitution Quotes #Aim Quotes #Clear Quotes

“People alive are better than people not alive.”
“When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment, Steven watched the protests and the preparations with interest. The bird people were furious, the developers unmovable, and Steven was filled with relief that the fight wasn't his. Nothing here was his... He thought there should have been something sad about how little he was tied up with the place, but instead it felt like freedom. He was free because it wasn't his water here, and they weren't his fish.”
“Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.”
“I love doing what I do.”
“Everything is designed to help you sell out.”
“I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.”
“Solitude is the place of purification.”
“When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we're getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day.”

Source : "11 Little Victories To Celebrate, Just Because" By Kate Bratskeir, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2013.

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