"Every man must be made to realize that further retreat is impossible. He must realize with his mind and heart that this is a matter of life and death of the Soviet state, of the life and death of the people of our country...the Nazi troops must be stopped now, before it is too late."

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Source : Statement made in World War II, as a commissar on the southern front, as quoted in "Leonid I. Brezhnev: Pages from his Life" by Academy of Sciences of the USSR, p. 49, 1978.

Leonid Brezhnev

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“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”
“Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.”
“When you're not in love, when you don't have love, everybody you know falls in love on like the same day - even Karen the douche bag falls in love! Even retarded people in your neighborhood are getting married on their front lawn as you drive by, â€œWhat? The 'tardsÂ just got married on their lawn. That's great! I have nobody, and the 'tards just committed to each other for a lifetime of 'tardinessâ€.”

Source : "Dane Cook: A Stand-Up Comic on the Rise". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. December 1, 2005.
“From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.”
“Authenticity is absolutely the key to a great tweet.”

Source : "Twitter CEO: 'Authenticity' is 'key to a great tweet'" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. December 6, 2013.
“You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake?”
“The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.”
“We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I have come to regard statistics with doubt and merely as a hint of the probable shape of fact.”

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