"To create such people, such People's Representatives in Indonesia, would take decades, and they can only grow up in a fundamentally different political system, and in a totally new culture. What is now governing Indonesia is morally defunct, it is corrupt. What is ruling the country now is not even a culture or a political system: it is a disease."

-- Andre Vltchek

#Country Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #People Quotes

“I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.”
“Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves. - And oh, that they knew how to seek themselves aright!”
“National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.”

Source : Richard Rorty (1998). “Against bosses, against oligarchies: a conversation with Richard Rorty”, Prickly Pear (UK)
“I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we're leading these four children into unknown waters.”
“I'm probably the toughest (expletive) here. Ain't no question about that with me. I'm the toughest guy here... I'm clean. I mean, I ain't got no marks on me. I don't know nobody else who can say that who came out of any sport. I ain't got no marks on me, so I've got to be the baddest dude I know of.”
“True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.”
“We should praise, rather, the courage of the player who, relying only on his intuition, plunges into a brilliant combination of which the issue does not appear to him too clear.”

Source : Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (2013). “The Art of Chess Combination”, p.197, Courier Corporation

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