Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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To travel? In order to travel it's enough to be. ... Why travel? In Madrid, in Berlin, in Persia, in China, at the Poles both, where would I be but in myself, and in the sort and kind of my sensations?Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.
Fernando Pessoa
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Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.
Otto Weininger
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Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.
Edmund Burke
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I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean.
Peter Brimelow
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High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
Douglas Coupland
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Personally, I had a close friend with cystic fibrosis. I won't ever forget how he handled himself. In the face of extreme challenges and very harrowing circumstances, he maintained a positive outlook and was just very dignified, even in his suffering.
Max Carver
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That which you think today becomes that which you are tomorrow.
Napoleon Hill
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Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Horace
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As for pressure, there's always the desire to give my best to every film. After all, so many people put in so much of hard work.
Vijay
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Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment.
Sigmund Freud
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Pop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential because of the 'star system' and the volatile attention pop receives for multiples of wickedness, ridicule, discontent, eccentricity, desire to thrive importantly in a genuinely popular context.
Paul Robert Morley
Art of Noise
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I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better.
Mikhail Gorbachev