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“You don't help your enterprise with a policy of protection.”

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Jacques Santer is a prominent politician born on May 18, 1937. He played a significant role in European politics and served as the President of the European Commission. more

“There could be some compromise, but I think we have to stick to the provisions of the treaty, and the provisions of the treaty are saying that the president is appointed for a mandate of eight years time. I think it would be very damaging for the European Central Bank if there would be a splitting of this mandate.”

Ifs Thinking Years Would Be President Sticks Eight Compromise Provision Treaties Mandates Central Banks Splitting

Author:Jacques Santer

“What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector.”

Self Hard Seems Today Growth Audience Communication Musician Communicate Excuse Supreme Irony Deceiving Disguise Clumsy Monologues Glorification Self Glorification

Author:Jacques Attali

“What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.”

Order Harmony Noise

Book:Noise: The Political Economy of Music

Source: Noise: The Political Economy of Music

“Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.”

Noise Faster

Book:Noise: The Political Economy of Music

Source: Noise: The Political Economy of Music

“For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.”

World Looks Five Century Twenties Western Hearing Noise Look Up Twenty Five

Book:Noise: The Political Economy of Music

Source: Noise: The Political Economy of Music

“Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.”

Government Governance Euphemism

Author:Jacques Attali

“The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman.”

Firsts Humans Human Beings Path Womb Labyrinth

Author:Jacques Attali

“Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.”

Happens Life Is Things Happen Dramatic

Author:Alexander Payne

“If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.”

Ifs Fall Falling In Love Forgotten Back In Time Go Back In Time

Author:Alexander Payne

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