"The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other."

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Neil Sheehan

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Two Quotes

“Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.”
“Putin is a despot, and he's a very good despot. And he will see things in a narrow way. What is good for Russia? That is what he will do. If that's represented by a move toward the Baltic, that would be very dangerous, but he would do it, on the assumption that he would ask himself the question: I am prepared to fight for Estonia. Is the United States? Is Germany? Is Britain, France?”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Dorothy tries to sum it all up before leaving Oz. "It's that if ever I go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard," she tells Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. "Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with. Is that it?" "That's all it is," confirms Glinda.”
“Gold is no longer an investment. Gold is no longer a portfolio item. Gold is certainly not a trading vehicle. Gold is your lifeline and I mean that literally.”
“We do not discard something we know to be true because of something we do not yet understand.”
“Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.”
“Hearts can deceive. Words can deceive. But eyes we should trust.”
“Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.”

Source : Sir Humphry Davy (1812). “Elements of Chemical Philosophy”, p.54

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