Georges Pompidou quotes
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“There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.”
-- Georges PompidouSource : Sunday Telegraph 26 May 1968
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“A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.”
-- Georges PompidouSource : In Observer 30 Dec. 1973
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“The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.”
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“There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.”
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“Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream.”
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“The rest of the world cannot be expected to regulate its life by a clock which is always slow.”
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“There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians.”
-- Georges Pompidou
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“Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.”
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Source : Chandra Talpade Mohanty (2003). “Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity”, p.24, Duke University Press
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“Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.”
Source : Ada Leverson (1907). “The Twelfth Hour”
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Source : Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.697, Institute of GS
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