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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I’m an old woman, your mother’s an old woman, so I’ll be an old woman, and I’ll do what I please.
Christina Stead
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My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman, which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised.
Nandan Nilekani
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I would have really loved to have gone on a hiatus to write for Daredevil.
Christopher McCulloch
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What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.
Saint Augustine
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The success of all of our kids is paramount. ... We can't just lock up everyone. The stakes are high.
Brian Baker
Bad Religion
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I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better.
Mikhail Gorbachev
