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russia roots anxiety
The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced. Ayn Rand
russia israel india-and-pakistan
It is time for the rest of the world to join ... in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states -including Israel, India and Pakistan, but above all the US and Russia - negotiate concrete steps on a definite time-table toward the global, inspected abolition of nuclear weapons. Daniel Ellsberg
russian-athlete
When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player? Anna Kournikova
russia drunk earth
One journalist said that everybody in Russia is miserable. Russia is a terrible place. And I'm going to end up miserable and I'm going to be a drunk and I'm never going to do anything. I don't drink. I've never been drunk in my life. And they talk about Russia like it's the worst place on earth. Russia's great. Edward Snowden
russia iran law
What do we do if we pass a law that says this has to be done, and then China says, oh, well, OK, we're going to pass that law too and we want access to every iPhone in China? Iran says the same thing, Russia says the same thing - you know, the bad guys go underground. They'll shift to some other encrypted platform. Angus King
russia europe usa
If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA will be in dire need of Russia as an ally. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
russia europe turkeys
In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco. Andrew Weil
russia people microsoft
Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process. Anatoly Chubais
russia people secret
And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in secret prisons, they disappeared them. Steve Wozniak
unions humans susceptible
Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies. Tony Kushner
unions ends soviet-union
Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist. Steve Earle
unions steps doe
It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable. David Cameron
empires britain british
Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves. Tony Benn
empires vibrations financial
You cannot be less than you are now. You cannot achieve a vibration that is less than the vibration that you have achieved. That's why when someone achieves an empire and then something happens where it is lost or destroyed, they still have the vibration that they've achieved, and the empire will come back again - you see it all the time - because it is the vibrational status that the Universe is responding to, not the financial status. Esther Hicks
empires
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. Pythagoras
empires drains british
Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels. John Oliver
empires nations passed small
The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come. Joseph Chamberlain