Andrei Lankov Quotes
There has been little, if any, doubt that nothing short of a massive regime collapse, or (even more violent and bloody) full-scale war, will ever produce a non-nuclear North Korea. The regime is run by cold-minded and rational people who cannot afford to be emotional...
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.
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I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.
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Change is the hallmark of nature. Nothing remains the same.
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Prayer is where the action is.
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Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie.
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There has been little, if any, doubt that nothing short of a massive regime collapse, or (even more violent and bloody) full-scale war, will ever produce a non-nuclear North Korea. The regime is run by cold-minded and rational people who cannot afford to be emotional...
