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“I can officially state that my government and myself believe that all over Europe we need to open a debate on the 'drug question' in order to create more coherent and human policies with better perspectives. . . . The policy of criminalizing consumers has failed, creating many problems to our society.”

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George Papandreou

George Papandreou, born on June 16, 1952, is a former Prime Minister of Greece. He has extensive experience in politics and served as Prime Minister twice. During his tenure, Greece faced severe economic crises, and his policies and decisions received widespread attention both domestically and internationally. more

“If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .”

“Allow me to inquire how man can control his own affairs when he is not only incapable of compiling a plan for some laughably short term such as, say, a thousand years, but cannot even predict what will happen to him tomorrow?”

Men Years Happens Term Plans Tomorrow Thousand Affair Thousand Years Incapable Short Term

Book:The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov

Source: The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov

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