"The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy."

-- Mikhail Gorbachev

#Unconditional Love Quotes #People Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“I suspect that I am the result of particularly weak conception on the part of my father. His sperm was probably emitted in a rather offhand manner.”
“Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty peak with ocean waves crashing down below, and thenâ€¦ justice served! If they wrote about the real world, four-fifths of the story would consist of the hero sitting in a library for months and following false leads.”

Source : Stefan Petrucha (2012). “Ripper”, Penguin
“In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and talk and write, only in its favor. Indeed, when we have a snug, comfortable theory, to which we are much attached, they appear to us as a very mean set of facts that will not square with it.”
“In this sacred Dispensation conflict and contention are in no wise permitted.”
“Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.”
“When I get this kind of support, I feel validated in my decision to stand up for myself.”

Source : Source: www.vanityfair.com
“Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it is our way of placating that half of our being which is in a sense a spectator of the other.”

Source : Benjamin Constant (2006). “Adolphe”, p.49, Penguin UK
“The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.”

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