"The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. You'd have thought that war was inevitable. But both sides showed that if the desire to avoid war is strong enough, even the most pressing dispute can be solved by compromise. And a compromise over Cuba was indeed found."

-- Nikita Khrushchev

#Strong Quotes #Powerful Quotes #War Quotes

“Love yourself, for who and what you are; protect your dream and develop your talent to the fullest extent.”
“I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.”
“I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.”
“I understood when I was just a child that without water, everything dies. I didn't understand until much later that no one "owns" water. It might rise on your property, but it just passes through. You can use it, and abuse it, but it is not yours to own. It is part of the global commons, not "property" but part of our life support system.”

Source : Marq De Villiers (2001). “Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If we are not in conflict with Palestine than why are they so afraid of us presenting Palestinian voices? Of course the answer is obvious, and we see it throughout the U.S. and the world, controlling the master narrative of Israel means vigilantly controlling the narrative about Palestine.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.”

Source : "The Outsider". Book by Colin Wilson, p. 231, 1956.
“I was a commodity, like a hot dog. It was like hot dogs and Betty Hutton.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Acting forces you to ask yourself, 'Can my constitution take a decade of constant rejection?' And after ten years, you either make it or you don't. And the problem is they don't tell you in advance.”

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