"Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground."

-- Ivan Krastev

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“There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.”
“Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.”

Source : Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.72, Random House
“The faster you go, the idler you get.”
“I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.”
“The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.”
“It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.”
“Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.”

Source : Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.8, Broadway Books
“Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the experienced. In this awareness, which is passive, the problem or the cause is given an opportunity to unfold itself and so give its full significance. In awareness there is no end in view to be gained, and there is no becoming, the 'me' and the 'mine' not being given the continuity.”

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