"I believe democracy can survive. But it's certainly true that the euphoria of the 1990s - an era when democracy was spreading and more and more people found it attractive - has ended. Trump is not a cause but rather a symptom of this change."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Anne Applebaum

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“Bad news travels fast. Good news takes the scenic route.”
“I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.”
“Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores. They expect to be blamed by teachers and psychologists, if not by police. And they will be blamed by the children themselves. It is hardy a wonder, then, that they withdraw into what used to be called "permissiveness" but is really neglect.”
“Sure, we had to be skinny. I lived on Diet Coke and apples for two years. For the couture, we had to get up at 4 am to be sewn into the clothes and there was huge pressure to be thin. But I made a million dollars by the time I was 20, I bought a town house in Manhattan and put myself through Columbia. Does that make me a victim?”
“I've been able to speak with most of the special teams coaches and special teams scouts.”
“Regardless what technology is, I like analog too.”
“Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.”
“Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Oct 18, 2016

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