Yanis Varoufakis Quotes
The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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People work hard.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
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Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.
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As far as the 2009 elections go, there has been a serious crackdown on human rights in Iran, a clampdown on the media and the wrongful imprisonment of journalists. So it seems what's happening is the government is going after people who have a voice, people who change society or public opinion.
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The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.
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Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.
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I've always traveled. I'm a professor in a limited way. I teach one class two quarters out of four, so I get traveling done.
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If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask me to make profits in ways that I have to change my allure, I won't do that. I won't lose my identity.
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I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's probably why I kept moving. I like to evolve.
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One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?
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The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.
