"With a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history."

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Source : "'Let Us Preach What We Practise': The Fulton Speech and Today's War" by Christopher C. Harmon, The Finest Hourmagazine, 135, p. 25, www.winstonchurchill.org. Summer 2007.

Vasily Rozanov

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“If we lose a game, I change up what I did that day, like if I eat something that day I will not eat the same thing again the next game day.”
“So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.”
“All these people who think they deserve free health care, or a job, or a plasma screen TV, simply because they radiate heat at 98.6 degrees, or because they were born in a certain place, or because they have a certain skin color - it's all bunk. There's no such thing as a 'just' wage. There's only what you earn.”

Source : "Doug Casey on Judging Justices". Interview with Louis James, www.caseyresearch.com. July 22, 2009.
“I was listening to this interview with fiction writer George Saunders the other day, and he said something about how the role of a writer is to build a more detailed world. I think it applies to what Gord Downie is doing with his body of work, which is to build a more detailed world and there's something really political about that.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.”
“Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.”
“The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may enjoy the fruits of their work themselves, the more is diligence killed, the former become insolent, the latter despairing, and both negligent.”

Source : "The National Gain" by Anders Chydenius, (§20), 1765.
“Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.”

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