"Whatever we saw in October 1941, cannot be compared to anything that we had seen prior, when our forces retreated from the Dniepr borders. Now, things like this no longer happen. Now, we can frown by ourselves."

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Source : "I. C. Bagramyan: A Photo Album About A Soviet Marshal", Yerevan, 1987.

Ivan Bagramyan

#Borders Quotes #Saws Quotes #October Quotes

“Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else.”
“The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee...”
“Peace out, enjoy life and live the adventure, boom.”
“Rise above principle and do what is right.”
“The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.”
“He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another to advance his own project; he was credulous enough to believe in the old adage of honor amongst thieves.”
“Freedom has only the meaning with which men endow it. It is not enough to pay lip service to the concept of religious liberty. We must pay heart service to it as well, else it remains an empty phrase instead of a living reality.”
“At the heart of my metaphysic there is the ultimate question and at the heart of the universe there is the ultimate questioner.”

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