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We need less theoretical debate and more practical application and acknowledgment of what Europe can and does do so that it is brought home to people in a relevant way.
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The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.
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People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
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I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.
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The artist must ask you to think of the world in a different way, and sometimes it's a more abstract way; sometimes it's a completely different kind of colouring.
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
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I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
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People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.


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Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.


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Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.


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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.


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There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages.


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I am so rich that I must give myself away.


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He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.


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