"Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people."

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Source : Appeal to the military to not participate in the coup attempt, while standing on a tank during troop movements against the Russian White House, August 19, 1991.

Boris Yeltsin

#Fighting Quotes #Russia Quotes #Order Quotes

“For any given doctrine that one wants to believe, there is never a shortage of arguments by which to support it.”
“The way I was raised, if something wasn't tough it was not a valuable or enriching experience.”
“In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?”
“If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.”

Source : "Fiction’s Big, White Problem" by Jenny Trout, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2014.
“The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.”
“he's a genius, she's a genius, wow, you know alot of geniuses, you should meet some stupid people sometime, you might learn something”
“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....”
“We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.”

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