"There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there were a choice between the life Poles led in the 1970s and 1980s and now, nobody but a lunatic would say they wanted to have back what they had before."

-- Zbigniew Brzezinski

#Disappointment Quotes #Choices Quotes #Outcomes Quotes

“It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already.”
“Stepping outside the comfort zone is the price I pay to find out how good I can be. If I planned on backing off every time running got difficult I would hang up my shoes and take up knitting.”
“If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.”
“My experience with being on a record label over the years has been when both of your agendas are in sync, and they're the same goal, it's great to have another army of people and resources and money. But most of the time, they're not the same. Their agenda is just simply to sell plastic discs at any cost, and yours is to preserve - at least in my case - your integrity, and hopefully sell some plastic discs, too.”
“You can't fix stupid. You can't fix a neutered dog you can't fix a garage door and hey, you can't fix stupid”
“The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.”

Source : "McNabb v. United States, 318 U.S. 332". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 1, 1943.
“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.”

Source : Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam
“Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.”

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