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“Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love.”
“Austerity, if I were to define, I'll say, It's YOU.”
“Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies.”
“For it wasn't the secret--the secret that wasn't a secret anyway--that led to austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of al...”
“In the large sense, I have to disagree with Bakunin, one thing austerity rhetoric has suggested is that when the people are being beaten with a stick, they are much happier if the media call it the...”
“It appears - because it has been the case for twenty years - that every problem is solvable...that no matter how badly the world economy slumps there is a pain-free way out of it. Once the realizat...”
“...the centrality of competitiveness as the key to growth is a recurrent EU motif. Two decades of EC directives on increasing competition in every area, from telecommunications to power generation ...”
