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"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."
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"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."
Community
"The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility."
Driving
"I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France."
Nation
"Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan."
Nation
"The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market."
Computer
"The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault."
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"Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours."
Society
"My problem is how to find the best way of being useful."
Being
"For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility."
Liberty
"Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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