I refuse to give into the sad reflex of French envy because this envy paralyzes our country. - Emmanuel Macron

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What kind of religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about?

Emmanuel Macron

I refuse to give into the sad reflex of French envy because this envy paralyzes our country.

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I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

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Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested.

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When we speak about climate change, you're a victim of something. . . which is happening with deep roots where you don't have - anything to deal with. And people just want to choose a life. That's very much important. And I think one of the key elements of the collective battle we have today, in order to fight against climate change is to provide people the ability to choose a life. To have a better life by behaving differently, by innovating, by creating new type of companies and startups, new type of activities.

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Georg Hegel viewed the "great men" as instruments of something far greater. Hegel believes that an individual can indeed embody the zeitgeist for a moment, but also that the individual isn't always clear they are doing so.

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We will succeed, because we are fully committed, because, wherever we live, whoever we are, we all share the same responsibility: Make our planet great again.

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Christians make enlightened decisions, for they talk with God.

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You might not agree with something, but it doesn't mean you don't need to listen to it. White people have to accept that they don't always know about racism.

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Michelle Shocked

What kind of religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about?

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Karl Kraus

Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.

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Peter Greenaway

I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions.

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