"The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall."

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Source : Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1994). “The View from the Kremlin”, HarperCollins

Boris Yeltsin

#Wall Quotes #Hammers Quotes #Unions Quotes

“Of Love--may God exalt you! -the first part is jesting, and the last part is right earnestness. So majestic are its diverse aspects, they are too subtle to be described; their reality can only be apprehended by personal experience. Love is neither disapproved by Religion, nor prohibited by the Law; for every heart is in God's hands.”
“I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.”
“Love is the answer, that everyone seeks...Love is the language, that every heart speaks.”
“Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.”
“Every couple weeks I'll listen to Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, just to check in, to see how it's doing. It's doing OK.”
“Just because you don't know everything don't mean you know nothing.”

Source : Karen Cushman (2012). “The Midwife's Apprentice”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I think one should express opinions and these books are relatively opinionated. They would be a bit dry without it.”
“The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children”

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