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All Quotes Collection

"From my sketch files I'll find a pose that shows the emotion behind a particular character's story."
37

"It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment."
54

"Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind."
47

"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
202

"Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith."
18

"Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines."
21


"To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity."
36


"Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair."
66


"Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off."
59


"Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?"
38


"All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool."
36


"No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style."
55


"Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream."
36


"The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent."
40

"If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow."
32

"But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level."
26

"The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!"
34

"Financial service providers act as the lubricating oil in the economy. They link consumers who want to invest their savings for a good return with companies who want to borrow on best terms for expansion."
30

"European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together."
27

"When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow."
28

"We can demonstrate, by our own example, how E.U. freedoms, including the freedom of nationals of other E.U. countries to come and work here, has enabled us to expand our economy."
39

"The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China."
36

"The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace."
30

"The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free."
32

"The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body."
37

"The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees."
29

"The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined."
31

"Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly."
67

"Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China."
38

"U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined."
27

"Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong."
29

"It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs."
30

"Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education."
30

"Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history."
36

"States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all."
27

"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together."
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