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		Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented as a means of reducing Russia's reach on its western frontiers and seeking to isolate it. Its former East European client states were admitted to NATO, as were the Baltic states.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Martin Jacques 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mahavira 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm too self-serious for a comedy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Damien Chazelle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Cara Buono 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vincent Cassel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				R. Kelly 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Madeleine M. Kunin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yulia Tymoshenko 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Larry Flynt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Maimonides 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ralph Peters 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Salman Rushdie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tate Donovan