"Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not."

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Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

David Hoffman

#Saving Quotes #Problem Quotes #Economic Quotes

“What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?”

Source : Lauren Kate (2010). “Fallen”, Random House
“Only a real ***** takes liberties with someone else's car stereo. That's serious.”
“Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.”
“Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.”
“The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.”
“But now isnâ€™t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now is labeled with its date, rendering all past nows obsolete, until â€” later of sooner â€” perhaps â€” no, not perhaps â€” quite certainly: it will come.”
“View every problem as an opportunity...”

Source : Joseph Sugarman (1980). “Success forces”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
“There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.”

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