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I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous. ↗

— Edward Teller

#contributed #defeat #enormous #i #i tried

'Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#any #bang #cheer #cop #desktop

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#chaos #comes #failure #generally #going

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. ↗

— William Morris

#arts #civilization #competition #degradation #die

We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought. ↗

— Shirley Temple

#invent #original #thought #which #would

You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#clearly #first #mind #must #see

As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#aside #brian #community #continue #correctly

However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#any #asked #congo #council #course

I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#believe #dues #i #live #member

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#claiming #freed #freeing #one thing #ownership