"Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so fast that it would basically be impossible, even in theory."

-- Vladimir Putin

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“Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”
“Companies that get in trouble have a failure to see two realities: market trends and competitor attacks.”
“I'd been right from the start - soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't be trusted.”
“For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.”
“There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.”

Source : "Extended Interview With Silvan Shalom". "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. February 1, 2004.
“The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.”
“One of the tax systems in the US is for wage earners. The government takes money from them out of each paycheck - so it knows how much they make, and those workers can't cheat to any significant degree. But the other tax system is for capital. Those with capital get to tell the government what they want to tell. They may get audited, but if their tax returns are of any size the government doesn't have enough of the smart auditors to figure out what's really going on. And there are the rules that allow you to do things like take in money today and pay taxes on it thirty years from now.”
“Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.”

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