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Anne Applebaum

"We can't continue assuming that politics is something which is decided elsewhere by distant leaders in a distant capital. Protest is insufficient too. If people who are willing to put time into demonstrations also prove willing to work on behalf of candidates in local elections - or to become candidates themselves - they will achieve far more. If all of this upheaval provokes more involvement, then we have a slim chance of ending up with more vibrant democracies eventually. The alternative, as you've hinted, is that democracy fails altogether."

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Anne Applebaum

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“Iâ€™m not really afraid to be my awkward self, and I know thereâ€™s lots and lots of other people just like me out there that are awkward themselves. And I think they just appreciate that Iâ€™m not afraid to say the weird things that I say and tweet the obnoxious things that I tweet. But Iâ€™ve tried being other people and myself suits me the best. I think you just be honest. I think people respond to honesty.”
“I'm interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They're accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small.”
“The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.”
“The hardest thing is to give up something you love, for the sake of Allah. But remember Allah never takes without giving something better.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dr. Bilal Philips from May 14, 2017
“As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted Al Qaeda. I believe the program is essential to US national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities.”
“The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.”
“Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!”
“Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.”

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