"The Kremlin said Yeltsin was committed to the deal, however. President Yeltsin states clearly and unequivocally that he is an initiator of the unification of the two fraternal states and their peoples, a consistent and firm supporter of it, ... It is a geopolitical necessity and an economic reality."

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Source : "Last-minute glitches mar Russia-Belarus merger". www.cnn.com. April 1, 1997.

Sergey Yastrzhembsky

#Reality Quotes #Two Quotes #President Quotes

“It is true that there are not many smiling faces in modern art galleries. Happy art is much harder to make. Art and humour are uneasy bedfellows. Artists need strong feelings to motivate them to make things. I am often fuelled by anger.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“Dance is a physical and mental workout. Once you get your body moving, you'll see a difference.”
“I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.”
“I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what I would eventually encounter in terms of people who weren't being sincere. I'm not saying that it happens always or a lot, but it happens enough that sometimes it makes me feel a little queasy.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces.”

Source : Rona Jaffe (2005). “The Best of Everything”, p.20, Penguin
“If we compare the two, Facebook is currently a superior place to market a product like Slide. Twitter is more like a general distribution agent. It's like broadcast radio.”
“I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.”
“In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, I know one boy who won't be sweating. I intend to raise my coffin-lid briskly, throw a few things into an overnight bag, and, whistling something appropriate, prepare to meet my Maker.”

Source : Alan Coren (1965). “The dog it was that died”

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