A Quote by Jacques Delors

The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.

Jacques Delors

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Jacques Delors
French - Economist
Born: June 20, 1925

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

Jacques Delors

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I think television is doing a better job than films in terms of representing people, but television is still not diverse.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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Mitt Romney

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

Jenny Shipley

We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering.

Marcel Proust

And now, dear Lord, I acknowledge afresh that You are the God of all peace, my Jehovah-Shalom. My job is to receive. you give me Your peace. My job is to take it. You lead me to Your still waters. My role is to follow. You extend Your hand. My role is to take hold. My I enjoy Your presence and the tranquility of the still waters where You pour out your promise of peace. Amen.

Elizabeth George

There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in. It's still in New York, and I always think about that job and why I didn't get it.

Noah Baumbach

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Lionel Jospin

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.

Kevin Rudd

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Mary Robinson

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