"Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Ian Bremmer

#Strong Quotes #World Quotes #Today Quotes

“All kids have tremendous talents â€” and we squander them pretty ruthlessly.”
“Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.”
“You want to know what it's like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don't stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over.”
“Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.”
“I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that.”
“They've kicked our backsides, we've got to lick our wounds...”

Source : "Quotes of the year" by Peter Bainbridge, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 25, 2008.
“The first and most important thing for me is that people feel how beautiful fashion can be and that it is not just a case of well-made and expensive clothes. Fashion is so rich and it is such an amazing occupation because we can draw on so many different sources of inspiration - just as a hummingbird feeds on a multitude of flowers.”
“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”

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