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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With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.
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A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray.
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I just have to move forward and keep working on my game and getting better.
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The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,' like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
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It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
