"The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny."

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Source : "Go Orange!". National Review Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

Bob Schaffer

#Reality Quotes #Destiny Quotes #Ukraine Quotes

“The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid to public control, illustrates that social behaviour depends upon mutual responsibility rather than upon the policeman.”
“Yorkie has officially retired about 5 times... The man's a clown... People are going on about the game and agents and directors of football and managers losing their jobs, but we should be worried about people like him... Clowns. That's the last time I'm going to say clown... If he's the vice-president of FIFA, God help us all.”
“... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.”
“Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.”

Source : Robert Rhodes James (1986). “Anthony Eden”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
“When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.”

Source : Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”
“The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?”

Source : Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.557, Library of America
“I was not born with a hunger to be free, I was born free.”
“The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand is too coarse the mortar will be short or brittle . . . If the sand is too fine the cement will shrink and crack after it has been used.”

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