Henry Kissinger Quotes
The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.

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Max cuffed his brother good-naturedly on the ear as River slid in past him and bent to kiss Sophia on the cheek. “Hello, are you sure you’re with the right brother?” Sophia had never had a younger sibling. But this man with his laughing eyes and bright smile... “Are you making me an offer?
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Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky.
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Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
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I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
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I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed in, though.
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Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.
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So why'd you say those words to him. If you could start over again.
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It is really this “mathematical mindset” that seems to be most useful to those who are not trained to think as mathematicians.
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Searching is everything - going beyond what you know. And the test of the search is really in the things themselves, the things you seek to understand. What is important is not what you think about them, but how they enlarge you.
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The bullets are useless! And it's dilating!
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I live in New York full time. I can't live in L.A., because I fear people think I'm a vagrant there.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic, with Democratic policy makers more obsessed with slicing the economic pie than with growing the pie - contained a good deal of truth.
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I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.
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I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.
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The North Koreans have gained, or bought, a lot of time through the six-party-talks framework to pursue their own agenda.
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The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.