"We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in defiance of the pact. This was a definite gain to our country and a loss for fascist Germany."

-- Joseph Stalin

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Loss Quotes

“It was a tough school. The kids on the debating team took steroids!”
“If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.”

Source : "What Republicans Must Do: Interview with Andrea Tantaros (Guest Interview)". Interview with Bill Steigerwald, themoderatevoice.com. January 24, 2009.
“Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.”
“I'm not trying to disrespect anybody by saying this - I'm not sure I feel any interaction with Asian America in any collective sense. - It's like, when you're telling me this right now, my reaction is, Really? Asian America knows about me?”
“Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy that I frankly suspect him of having planted a secret microphone in the tin Oxford Mathematical Instruments box I carried around in my school days... As always with Jonathan Coe, the sheer intelligent good nature that suffuses his work makes it a pleasure to read.”
“Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.”
“A full mind is an empty bat.”
“Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.”

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