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- Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. — Henry Ford
- Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it. — Ernest Hemingway
- We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems. — Naguib Mahfouz
- I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other. — Chris Patten
- Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries. — Chris Patten
- But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership. — Chris Patten