"You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness."

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Source : "Meeting U.S. Envoy, Putin Appears to Soften His Tone". www.nytimes.com. November 19, 2014.

Vladimir Putin

#Weapons Quotes #Politeness Quotes

“And what amazes me as I hit the motorway is not the fact that everyone loses someone, but that everyone loves someone. It seems like such a massive waste of energy -- and we all do it, all the people beetling along between the white lines, merging, converging, overtaking. We each love someone, even though they will die. And we keep loving them, even when they are not there to love any more. And there is no logic or use to any of this, that I can see.”
“Like most people raised on American movies, I have poor access to my emotions, but can banter like a motherfucker.”
“Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their lives when they thought about whether they really wanted to wake up the next day. Wanting to die seems like it might be a part of being alive.”
“Missionary life is simply a chance to die.”
“A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.”
“To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.”
“Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.”

Source : Lady Morgan (Sydney) (1859). “An Odd Volume Extracted from an Autobiography”, p.17
“I don't know that we're beating anyone at their own game. I just think that we tried to include a lot of Nashville entities from the very beginning, just to see if that would work. We were trying to take my music to a different level and some people wanted me to change my style and my image, obviously that's not going to happen so we simply thanked those people for their time.”

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