"We Russians are already living, not getting ready to live."

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Source : Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1994). “The View from the Kremlin”, HarperCollins

Boris Yeltsin

“Dance music was really leading the way in the U.K., Europe and Australia. America was always about hip-hop and R&B.”
“Competition is the hallmark of a free enterprise economy. For the past thirty years, however, corporate America has been doing everything it can to cut competition, with major corporations merging and consolidating at every opportunity.”

Source : Lou Dobbs (2006). “War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War ont he American Dream and How to Fight Back”, p.110, Penguin
“A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them.”
“Intelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free-floating brainpower.”
“To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.”
“Caffeine dehydrates the body and speeds up the aging of the skin and kidneys.”
“In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.”
“New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.”

Source : Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”

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