"The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian."

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Source : "U.S.-Soviet Relations, A History" by John Corry, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 1984.

George F. Kennan

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“Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right.”
“The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.”

Source : "Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws". A letter to Catherine the Great, 1774.
“He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.”
“Fantastic, I am very happy to be the fastest 800 metres runner in the world.”
“Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.”
“Sometimes I write music, sometimes I don't. I think I'm just writing more what's close to my heart, and musical stuff is close to my heart, and it's fun to write, and when something's fun to write you don't think about what statement you're trying to make or what genre you're trying to hone in on.”

Source : Source: gawker.com
“The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.”
“Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring.”

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