"The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers."

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Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.219, W. W. Norton & Company

John Mearsheimer

#Progress Quotes #World Quotes #Unions Quotes

“The living have their eyes opened by closing the eyes of the dead.”
“No one can live in the light all the time.”
“Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.”

Source : "Margot Fonteyn : Autobiography‎" by Margot Fonteyn, (p. 81), 1975.
“The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job . In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.”
“What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.”

Source : "Broadway Babylon: Glamour, Glitz, and Gossip on the Great White Way". Book by Boze Hadleigh, 2007.
“All that is beautiful, and all that looks on beauty with eyes filled with fire, like a lover's eyes: all of this is yours; you gave it to me, sunlight! all these stars are yours; you gave them to me, skies!”
“I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made.”
“Feeling hearts--touch them but lightly--pour A thousand melodies unheard before.”

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