"A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal."

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Source : Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1994). “The View from the Kremlin”, HarperCollins

Boris Yeltsin

#Sake Quotes #Mud Quotes #Politician Quotes

“Ask Baby can you be truly part of someone you love." "He says only if you love yourself.”
“We do pretty much whatever we want to.”
“I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.”
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”
“Let the young rain of tears come, let the calm hands of grief come. It's not all as evil as you think.”

Source : Rolf Jacobsen (2001). “The Roads Have Come to an End Now: Selected and Last Poems of Rolf Jacobsen”, p.17, Copper Canyon Press
“During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.”
“One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.”
“Writing helps us heal in certain way, but it doesn't make the experience of thinking about writing that occasion any less painful. When you revisit trauma, you don't know what's going to be triggering for you because you don't know how it's connected in your mind. So in the same way when we write something, it doesn't completely resolve the experience for us. It can feel therapeutic, but that's not the reason why I do it. I do it to ask a question, or just to find meaning.”

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