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There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.


Joseph de Maistre

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ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA The fear of man is a prison; the fear of God is a fortress.
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YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO The thing to do is to build a fortress within yourself.
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ROBIN WRIGHT There is no adequate reason to pursue the Russian plan.
JAVAD VAEIDI Lies are a little fortress; inside them you feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of ...
WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG While a man desires a woman,
His mind is bound
As closely as a calf to its mother.
DHAMMAPADA History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
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RICHARD CORLISS Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
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GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
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EDWARD COKE The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and v...
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RAMMAN KENOUN Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks. Russian proverb
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KATHERINE ALLRED Not an inch of our territory not a stone of our fortress.
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BRONISLAW GEREMEK The mood here is euphoric ... This is being looked upon as a miracle in this small Russian town,
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JAVAD VAIDI Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
NATALIA MAKAROVA In solitary at the towering fortress of desire, visioning for what the heart craved to restore, thou...
CATHERINE MCGEE The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer.
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AKHMED ZAKAYEV You can be a protestant in a country known as the birthplace of the Russian orthodox church
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there.
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DALE CARNEGIE In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
HEINRICH HEINE That, Your Excellency, is precisely the problem. As long as we are buying Russian oil, we are at the...
ATSUKO ABE A part of the interesting design of Fortress is our emphasis on using traditional mathematical notat...
GUY STEELE an exceptional woman ... who brilliantly gave Russian women a new image.
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LEONID IVASHOV When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
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GENNADY ZYUGANOV Visas represent one bureaucratic obstacle, so to say and, if removed, might increase the inflow of R...
MILOS ZEMAN The Russian soul is a dark place.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Dreams and needs tear down fortress of impossibility.
TOBA BETA For me, my life is a journey.
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ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russia...
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DASHA ZHUKOVA Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Russian citizens being attacked is an attack against the Russian Federation.
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URSULA VERNON Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
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The one w...
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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
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JOSEPH SUGARMAN Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL An old Apache storyteller reminds us:

JOSEPH CAMPBELL We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark...
JOSEPH FARRELL Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to...
JOSEPH CANNON We always plan too much and always think too little.
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and temp...
JOSEPH CONRAD Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
JOSEPH ROUX Perfection is the child of time.
JOSEPH HALL Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
JOSEPH CONRAD There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
JOSEPH ROUX Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
JOSEPH JOUBERT There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
JOSEPH JOUBERT