It's back to local politics. The federal dimension of Europe is more in the background than in the 1990s, and individual countries are becoming more important.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money. T. R. KNIGHT Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are onl... FRANK DOBSON The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. ... MICK CORNETT Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON The concept is to move local councils more toward becoming local governments, rather than local admi... MUHAMMAD KAMAL We're not seeing important national trends like the shrinking of crack markets in the 1990s, ... The... ALFRED BLUMSTEIN Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end. DAMIAN LEWIS In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the de... TAMMY BRUCE In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and t... PAUL DUDLEY WHITE It's becoming more and more the choice to feed starving countries. FRANK MUIR Unlike in the 1980s and 1990s, this time the Japanese are going to be more circumspect and invest in... ARJUNA MAHENDRAN We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON [Sheppard began his career as a high school speech teacher, and was a professor at St. John's into t... BOB SHEPPARD A series of studies in the 1990s and 2000s revealed that as women gained more access to education, j... ANNALEE NEWITZ There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and vir... BELVA LOCKWOOD It can expand its brands in China, Europe, India, and South American, and it immediately increases i... JOE GREFF This is a very important acquisition for ABN because they struggle with growth and, though Italy is ... SIGRID BAAS The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and br... HENRY LAWSON Accessories are important and becoming more and more important every day, GIORGIO ARMANI Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppre... ALVA MYRDAL To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profo... SRI AUROBINDO She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profo... SRI AUROBINDO Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power ... STEPHEN KINZER Those who worry stumble long The Way. Those who pray have no time to stray. ERROL ANTHONY SMYTHE No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no mea... ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'... W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti... WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al... J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey... ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination. RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft... ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits. THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people. ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost. PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe... THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress... SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today. SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous. G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the... JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see. KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... NEIL GAIMAN I think I have more patience now than I did in the past. T. BOONE PICKENS Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint. GEORGE CLOONEY God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... RICK RIORDAN Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of ... JIMMY CARTER There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexua... JOAN DIDION Beautify your breath – beautify your life. AMIT RAY That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere... J.D. SALINGER It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conven... OLAFUR ELIASSON No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Japan's recovery is becoming much more entrenched. In Europe there is growing hope growth will pick ... WANDA TSENG The direction of the mind is more important than its progress. JOSEPH JOUBERT The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew. SOTONYE ANGA An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER In the beginning of my career, I wanted to be chased by girls more than anything - that's why I ... BJORN ULVAEUS A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education t... MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE Let me tell you, politics is much more difficult than war, ... In politics, there are so many more f... MASSOUD BARZANI Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and ca... GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics. LEON KASS The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. SHARON SALZBERG You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Now is everything Now is the essence Now is the focus Focus on the now For that ... KAREN HACKEL Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe. HEDY LAMARR If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. AMIT RAY When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more.... DAVID BROOKS When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more.... DAVID BROOKS One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is... R.J. GONZALES And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... CRAIG GROESCHEL Sometimes I think we ignore, or don't think about that as much. I think in these days, if you follow... ALLAN HALE Our eyes are placed in front because it is more important to look ahead than look back. UNKNOWN The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when t... AL-WALEED BIN TALAL
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