"Russia has lost an empire but not yet found a role. Russia has to decide what it wants to be. And as we know in Britain, that takes some time. It is quite tough to lose an empire and Russia lost its empire very rapidly and very admirably, that is to say peacefully, it didn't fight."

-- Timothy Garton Ash

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“Newspapers, magazines and other publications have the constitutional right to be offensive, even disgusting. As evidence of that, just watch this space regularly.”

Source : Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.2366, Agate Digital
“Kristin Bauer is so funny. Half the time I'm working with her I'm just trying to keep a straight face.”
“My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.”
“I think that a lot of people do have a physical Ithaca, but I don't think that I do and I think that a lot of people do not. This depends on your values and the circumstances of your life. My Ithaca is in the Mental realm and this doesn't mean that you don't have to go back to it.”

Source : Source: www.compulsivereader.com
“What is done can never be undone.”
“In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.”
“Digital wisdom is made of recycled electrons that are meaningful until you pull the plug.”
“White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.”

Source : Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.21, U of Nebraska Press

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