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Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.


Nick Clegg


#admiration #become #between #curious #distance

Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of my family, partly because of what I did for ten years: negotiating trade deals, working out in Central Asia doing assistance projects.


Nick Clegg


#although #am #asia #assistance #because

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.


Jim Valvano


#cancer #cannot #heart #mind #my soul

In rereading one of the best essays I know on Dante's Paradiso, Giovanni Getto's "Aspetti della poesia di Dante" (Aspects of Dante's Poetry, 1947), one can see that there is not one single image of Paradise that does not stem from a tradition that was part of the medieval reader's heritage, I won't say of ideas, but of daily fantasies and feelings. It is from the biblical tradition and the church fathers that these radiances come from, these vortices of flame, these lamps, these suns, these brilliances and brightnesses emerging "like a horizon clearing" (Par. 14.69)...For medieval man, reading about this light and luminosity was equivalent to when we dream about the sinuous gracefulness of a movie star, the elegant lines of a car...It is this appeal to a poetry of understanding that can make the Paradiso fascinating even for the modern reader who has lost the reference points familiar to his medieval counterpart.


Umberto Eco


#poetry-of-understanding #dreams

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.


Nick Clegg


#beyond #composition #difficult #difficult things #does

Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with Tony Blair, with Peter Mandelson... talking about Europe, talking about political reform.


Nick Clegg


#across #blair #conversations #david #each

I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.


Nick Clegg


#aggressive #am #anything #been #believer

If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.


Roberto Clemente


#ball #ball player #be happy #body #energy

The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.


Levon Helm


#everything #group #important #just #make

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.


Georges Clemenceau


#matter #men #military #serious #too






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