"Russia had to take the necessary measures in order to prevent the situation in Crimea unfolding the way it is now unfolding in southeastern Ukraine. We didn't want any tanks, any nationalist combat units or people with extreme views armed with automatic weapons."

-- Vladimir Putin

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“Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.”
“If Peteâ€™s (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if heâ€™s a boy, my son will defeat him.”
“The harsh fact of the matter is when you're passing legislation that will cover 300 million American people in different ways, it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.”
“I am hungry to be interrupted For ever and ever amen O Person from Porlock come quickly And bring my thoughts to an end.”
“There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by which brains worked out that special trick that has enabled them to add to the cosmic scheme of things: color, sound, pain, pleasure, and all the other facets of mental experience.”

Source : "Evolution of the Human Brain". Lecture by Roger Wolcott Sperry, 1964.
“It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence”

Source : Mark Epstein (2013). “Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective”, p.46, Basic Books
“Leadership is of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision.”
“Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.”

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