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Quotes by Dutch Authors
"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."
"In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential."
"A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices."
"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process."
"Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted."
"We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero."
"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check."
"The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed."
"We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie."
"I dream my painting and then I paint my dream."
"What I am in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart."
"There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even-the French air clears up the brain and does good-a world of good."
"Of course you know this difference as well as I do, only you failed to draw from it the conclusions for the tactics in Western Europe, at least as far as I am able to judge from your works."
"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."
"Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself."
"Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well."
"The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more."
"I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that."
"When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win."
"They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it."
"What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them."
"I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves."
"The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected."
"So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us."
"For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the peasants would soon be on their side."
"Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential."
"I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism."
"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent."
"Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent."
"It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth."
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