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All Quotes Collection

"American power worldwide is at its historic zenith."
64

"In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option."
69

"We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war."
69

"We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old."
51

"We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised."
46

"We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States."
60

"To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone."
54

"God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings."
58

"There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say."
131

"The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings."
196

"The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes."
55

"For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it."
56

"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."
70

"I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me."
65


"You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily."
166


"I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career."
208


"Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk."
Risk,
41


"My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region."
39


"My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club."
40


"People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!"
60


"I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough."
202


"The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person."
43


"I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches."
176


"I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream."
47


"I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day."
201


"And, of course, method is very important as is a high-quality specialist (trainer) working with you to keep you going in the right direction for your improvement and to help create results."
50


"The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen."
72

"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."
28

"Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective."
37

"The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things."
32

"To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education."
31

"We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves."
52

"There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness."
41

"The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them."
45

"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."
50

"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope."
64

"The best prayers have often more groans than words."
44

"Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God."
50

"He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply."
49

"Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences."
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