"Sanctions kept us on our toes, it made us realize that we were drifting into a situation of growing isolation so I wouldn't go as far as to say sanctions didn't play a role but if I were to put on a scale, the issues of conscience played a much greater role than the sanctions. We could have withstood sanctions for many more years. We became experts in circumventing sanctions... So sanctions played a role but it wasn't the major role."

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Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Frederik Willem de Klerk

#Realizing Quotes #Isolation Quotes #Drifting Quotes

“What a vast Traffick is drove, what a variety of Labour is performed in the World to the Maintenance of Thousands of Families that altogether depend on two silly if not odious Customs; the taking of Snuff and smoking of Tobacco; both which it is certain do infinitely more hurt than good to those that are addicted to them!”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.194, Jazzybee Verlag
“These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold him who causes them to suffer unnecessarily to answer for it. It is a sin against their Creator.”
“Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there through struggle, such as socialized medicine, free college education, and paid family leave. But if you talk to working people in Sweden or Norway today, you will find out that many of those past gains have been eroded and some virtually eliminated, including massive under-funding of healthcare and other public services and a return to for-profit systems that are unaffordable to working class people.”

Source : Source: www.socialistalternative.org
“I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).”
“It's been scattered and I had to follow leads. Some stuff was with different family members in various drawers. I find out about more stuff and more stuff [over time]. I won't call it a treasure hunt, but it's like an old Western movie we're you're onto one thing and it turns into another.”

Source : "William Burroughs Documentary: Howard Brookner’s Movie Re-Released After Decades Out Of Print". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.
“I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living.”

Source : "Dick Van Patten - Finding A “Natural Balance” Between Acting, Animals and Family Fun" by Lori Golden, www.thepetpress-la.com. September, 2004.
“When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.”
“We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.”

Source : Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.28

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