"There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia."

-- David Remnick

#Russia Quotes #Class Quotes #Mafia Quotes

“If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?”

Source : Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.14, Penguin
“It's hard keeping everything the same when the same things look and feel so different”
“I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action so far as is consistent with the common good and the interest of others. Rulers should, nevertheless, anxiously safeguard the community and all its members; the community, because the conservation thereof is so emphatically the business of the supreme power, that the safety of the commonwealth is not only the first law, but it is a government's whole reason of existence....”
“How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!”
“I'm not good at math. Numbers are a terrifying thing to me. My father is a whiz with money and the stock market, and he tries to explain it to me, and I find it terrifying.”
“In 1859 the human race discovered a huge treasure chest in its basement. This was oil and gas, a fantastically cheap and easily available source of energy. We did, or at least some of us did, what anybody does who discovers a treasure in the basement - live it up, and we have been spending this treasure with great enjoyment”
“If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.”

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