"I think that we are right now - the society - is living in the Facebook era and the political system is still in the 19th century prior to the Industrial era. Why for God's sake do you need to be socially liberal and economically conservative? Or to be economically market-oriented but at the same time socially, extremely conservative? Why can't you be free in both dimensions?"

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Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com

Ilya Ponomarev

#Thinking Quotes #Political Quotes #Conservative Quotes

“Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.”
“No one else can steward the fire inside of you because only you are in charge of it.”
“When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering because it has to do with the fleetingness of form. But if that is the only level that operates in you, you haven't gone beyond suffering.”
“Look, if you're playing Romeo and your Juliet is a pig, you find something you can love about pigs!”
“Are there books about us or something?â€ This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.”
“I've been able to speak with most of the special teams coaches and special teams scouts.”
“My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.”

Source : "Brigitte Nielsen" by Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2011.
“[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.”

Source : Robert Earl Hayden (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.27, University of Michigan Press

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