"Don't mistake the Russia you want to exist for the Russia that there actually is. Be realistic."

--

Source : Source: www.politico.com

Daniel Fried

#Mistake Quotes #Russia Quotes #Want Quotes

“Jim mentioned I was an ALEC member, and that's correct.”
“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
“I felt the calling to adopt. You just know in the deepest part of your being that you are meant to find this little soul and guide them through life.”
“Brief life is here our portion.”

Source : John Mason Neale (1867). “Hymns suitable for invalids”, p.45
“There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.”
“We see systematically taught in our high schools today that kids not have to hear their parents, that they can make their own rules, and not even live by what their parents, so there's no guidance from the parents. And there's a concerted effort why - government must be their God.”
“Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that the study is dangerous. Perhaps we shall find out that we were not what we took ourselves to be. But if the historical development of science has indeed sometimes pricked our vanity, it has not plunged us into an abyss of immorality. Arguably, it has liberated us from misconceptions, and thereby aided us in our moral progress.”

Source : Philip Kitcher (1982). “Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism”, p.202, MIT Press

You may also like:

Alan Bersin
International lawyer
Barack Obama
44th U.S. President
Carol Browner
Former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Cliff Sloan
Steven Chu
Former United States Secretary of Energy
Van Jones
Civil Rights Advocate
William J. Clinton
42nd U.S. President
Christopher R. Hill
Diplomat
Daniel Benjamin
Journalist