"Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy. I doubt it myself. I think what Gorbachev didn't quite understand, until it was too late, is that his efforts at change unleashed new, certrifical forces he hadn't counted on. He opened the door a crack and a huge wind blew it open."

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Source : "David Hoffman on 'The Dead Hand' and End of the Cold War". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

David Hoffman

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“There are so many great animals in our local shelters that people don't really know about. Annually, two to four million animals are euthanized, and we can bring that number down significantly by going to our local shelter and adopting and also by spaying and neutering your pets.”

Source : "Beth Stern: Speaking Up for Our Furry Friends". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.”
“Christianity isn't true because it works; it works because it's true.”
“We are always in awe of what the donors have done in terms of providing of themselves to the recipients. It really is a heroic act because people take on themselves not only a risk of death but also pain-and-suffering in order for their loved one to get the benefit of the liver transplant.”

Source : Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org
“Kirk Cousins has played much better at the quarterback position than Robert Griffin III has,”

Source : "Joe Theismann: Kirk Cousins has outplayed RGIII" By Dan Steinberg, www.washingtonpost.com. August 23, 2014.
“When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.”
“Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.”
“Dullness is a kind of luxury.”

Source : Bharati Mukherjee (2007). “Jasmine”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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