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"The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others."
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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."

"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."

"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."

"Imagination is a glorious wonder."

"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."

"Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it."

"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."

"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."

"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."
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"Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit."

"Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity."

"All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many."

"Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government."

"That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way."

"The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous."

"You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances."
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