"Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat."

-- Victor Ponta

#Risk Quotes #Passionate Quotes #Communist Quotes

“All I expect are wins and to get pleasure from the game. And if someone thinks something about me, if someone's dissatisfied with something... that's not my headache. I hope someday I'll become World Champion - and I'll make all these people happy. But even if for some reason that doesn't happen it won't stop me getting pleasure from chess. I'm sure of that.”
“All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just spectators would dance too.”
“This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near things appear very small, and how we may make small things placed at a distance appear any size we want, so that it may be possible for us to read the smallest letters at incredible distances, or to count sand, or seed, or any sort or minute objects.”

Source : "De iride ('On the rainbow')". Treatise by Robert Grosseteste,
“Terrorism is really the only existential threat to America as we know it - as a free country that plays a leading role in the world.”
“It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.”
“He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all.”
“No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.”
“With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.”

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