"There's not a whole lot of similarity between the two societies, Russian and American. There are similarities behind psychological forces. One thing we can learn is that things can change pretty fast. And this idea that we know who we are and that things can only get so bad in this country - that's wrong."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Masha Gessen

#Country Quotes #Psychological Quotes #Similarity Quotes

“I think the issue that millennials have is that the return on asset classes such as bonds, cash, are so low now compared to the historical levels that it's very difficult for them to save enough to be able to retire comfortably. If interest rates do trend back upwards, it may be less of a problem going forward.”
“The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads ...”

Source : Katharine Susannah Prichard (1983). “The Roaring Nineties: A Story of the Gold Fields of Western Australia”
“Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.”
“I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect”
“I got a heart tattooed on my foot. It's my first tattoo.”
“Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.”
“People are competing to win at a game that is a loser's game. The game is to have better routine images than someone else's routine images. If you want a prescription for routine images, you just have to go through any student's portfolio.”
“I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea....”

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