This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.
Natan Sharansky
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TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS ...în general cu oamenii, cel mai înțelept era să te aștepți întotdeauna la răutate, la răc... PETER ROSEI If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. FREEMAN DYSON Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty. RUPERT SHELDRAKE In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron... HERBIE HANCOCK We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism. FRANK SCOTT Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I began to entertain a suspicion, that no man in this age was sufficiently qualified for such an und... DAVID HUME Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and d... FRANK R. STOCKTON I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found b... CHE GUEVARA Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justif... FULTON J. SHEEN From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its stru... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its stru... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Reinvent yourself. Don't let your past weigh you down. MARTY RUBIN I don't want to live in a militarised country behind an iron curtain. It's boring. Been ther... DMITRY MEDVEDEV I know that in any case, today is the beginning of a drastic democratic transformation. ISA GAMBAR Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f... GEORGE HARRISON A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semi... BARBARA SMITH If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER One hardly knows which is the more appalling: the abjectness of the credulity or the flippancy of th... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW This Alcatraz swim is something I've wanted to do since I was a kid. Back in 1979 when (the movie) '... TERRY EGAN A few years ago, when this space was much more raw, I did a little playing here, and I thought this ... ANI DIFRANCO He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but ... JAMES MARTINEAU In the end all the puzzles of your life will be solved ,until then... laugh at the scepticism, live ... ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA Of all sciences there is none, where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics. DAVID HUME Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with ... FRANZ KAFKA This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the ... EARL BROWDER The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, he... PHILLIP NOYCE Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all wer... BLAISE PASCAL The weirdest thing was that we rehearsed in the exact same room we rehearsed in 34 years ago, ... Wh... JOHN GUARE She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a gre... MADELEINE ALBRIGHT When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ... VICTOR GARBER Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I consider this as a victory for all, as a victory for the democratic transformation and the new sys... YASIR ARMAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud NEIL GAIMAN I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such... EVA HART Scepticism is a choice of weapon. It helps you remain in the state of not going with the flow of fac... ANTHONY G Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH This is your fault. I'm going to kill you. And all the cake is gone. You don't even care, do yo... J.K. SIMMONS I said a few years ago when I didn't go to West Virginia that the greatest resource of this city is ... BOB HUGGINS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA For better or worse we're in an age of disbelief," Rico said, "An age of science and a need for proo... BRYAN ISLIP If the German people lay down their weapons, the Soviets, according to the agreement between Rooseve... JOSEPH GOEBBELS [Gorbachev, who once said the collapse of the Iron Curtain would have been impossible without the po... MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Anything east of the former Iron Curtain is still significantly cheaper than Western Europe. EDWARD HASBROUCK I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... 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