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"So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge."

"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."

"Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.O hateful error, Melancholy's child,Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of menThe things that are not? O Error, soon concieved,Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,But kill'st the mother that engendered thee."
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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."

"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."

"For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility."

"My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it."

"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."

"Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship."

"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."

"Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past."

"Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place."
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