Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
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Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds.
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I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.
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But he understood from hard-earned experience that true security comes through making peace with your neighbors.
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SWA Magazine: Talking about spacecraft, what do you think about the shuttle program?
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I want to initiate a bilateral agenda that helps Mexico and the U.S. together compete with the world better, especially with the economies of Asia and the Pacific.
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There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.
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The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.
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Playboy's all about why it's worth working so hard.
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It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
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Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism.
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Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.
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A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
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At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.
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I'm used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority of my days are with the baby.
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When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.
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This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American "Greenbackers" in the nineteenth, had resulted, under the Orleans Regency and Louis XV, in ruin to France financially and morally, had culminated in the utter destruction of all prosperity, the rooting out of great numbers of the most important industries, and the grinding down of the working people even to starvation.
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Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.
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It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
