#eu

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#begun #common #entirely #europe #even

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities. ↗

— James Baldwin

#inexorable #life #limits #mysterious #need

Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on. ↗

— Jan Peter Balkenende

#countries #crucial #europe #european #european union

Freud was a genius; geniuses are bright but not necessarily right. What they do do, right or wrong, is to provide images that guide, or compel, the lives of the rest of us. If we are not careful we may accept the inevitability of these images. It seems that great men offer us a portion of reality and, because of their greatness, we take it for the whole. ↗

— Peter Redgrove

#genius #men

I am a makeup junkie... Yves St. Laurent, Christian Dior, and anything else that looks good. ↗

— Julia Barr

#anything #christian #else #good #i

A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#belgium #central #countries #country #education

Romania will always defend the Roma's right to move freely in Europe. They are European citizens and as long as there is no evidence they broke the law they should enjoy the same rights of any European citizen. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#any #broke #citizen #citizens #defend

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#does #enslaving #european #feel #free

In order to consolidate the euro we need to harmonise our economic, fiscal and social policies, hence we are going toward greater integration. ↗

— Francois Fillon

#economic #euro #fiscal #going #greater

For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism. ↗

— Greg Bear

#been #before #costly #deadly #even