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"To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity."
Creativity
"I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime."
Politics
"Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time."
Time
"Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans."
Attitude
"I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold."
Love
"After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement."
Being
"Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion."
History
"The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities."
Survival
"Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping."
Politics
"But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy."
Politics
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"Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death."
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Personal Development
"Money is good, but I prefer food, water, gold, weapon and energy."
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Personal Development
"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."
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Personal Development
"When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so."
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Personal Development
"To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!"
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Personal Development
"That's a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty, but it's not really true. It's like you and your body are two separate things, like your body is betraying you, chugging on, idiotic and animal, craving water and sandwiches and bathroom breaks while your world falls apart."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it."
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Personal Development
"I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I'll open my eyes and look back at them, and they'll know hat I survived."
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Personal Development
"If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image."
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Personal Development
"It's more like the anger what keep us alive, if yoh are Happy - you are fucking open to dead."
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Personal Development
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