"It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction"

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Source : Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.263, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

Mikhail Gorbachev

#Arguing Quotes #Destruction Quotes #Polemics Quotes

“I smoke to fill the potholes in my soul”
“Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.”
“Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December.”

Source : James Schuyler (1969). “Freely Espousing: Poems”
“If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.”
“Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS”
“One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.”
“I'm really old-fashioned. An Epsom salt bath, that's genuinely better than any massage.”
“Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.”

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