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		The European family may well be anything but perfect. But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging compromises so that people here can live in peace, freedom, and prosperity.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jean-Claude Juncker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bear Grylls 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dana Carvey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				E. B. White 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abraham Verghese 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zack Snyder 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Imre Kertesz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Doris Lessing 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't know what I'm going to do tomorrow. I just know for sure I'm going to keep playing basketball. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kevin Durant 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Judy Collins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jeff Kinney 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Reconquer the streets, the markets – the public spaces, with the same message of opposition: We are devastated, but we will not give up. With torches and roses, we deliver this message to the world: We do not let fear break us. And we do not let the fear of fear silence us. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jens Stoltenberg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The European family may well be anything but perfect. But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging compromises so that people here can live in peace, freedom, and prosperity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jean-Claude Juncker