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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."
"Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural."
"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem."
"I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive."
Explore more quotes by Jacques Delors
"The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws."
"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."
"The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation."
"Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours."
"The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way."
"Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship."
"Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past."
"The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people."
"I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan."
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