"Leonid Brezhnev did not understand the enormous political importance of the decision to produce and afterwards deploy the SS-20s."

-- Helmut Schmidt

#Decision Quotes #Political Quotes #Brezhnev Quotes

“The truth is never the problem; The problem is always the problem.”

Source : Jeff VanVonderen (2008). “Tired of Trying to Measure Up: Getting Free from the Demands, Expectations, and Intimidation of Well-Meaning People”, p.87, Bethany House
“I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.”

Source : The Tavis Smiley show, www.pbs.org. February 20, 2013.
“Happy". I had not heard that word since Mr. Milgrom spoke it at the last Hanukkah. I asked him the question that had been on my mind since then. "Tata, what is happy?" He looked at me and at the ceiling and back to me. "Did you ever taste an orange?" he said.”
“Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.”

Source : Catharine Beecher (2013). “Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book”, p.34, Courier Corporation
“Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think”

Source : Gilles Deleuze, Claire Parnet (2007). “Dialogues II”, p.4, Columbia University Press
“Responding to the question "If Mr. Stalin dies, what will be the effect on international affairs?" That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.”
“You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.”
“I started modeling myself on [ Buckminster Fuller], like with the hair. I reached an age where I sort of, kind of, looked like him a little bit, you know? I thought it was great.”

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