#aria

I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#always #because #borrow #buy #community

Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#dedicated #freedom #freedom of speech #gaza #hamas

I will work for Bulgaria's strategic choice - Bulgaria's membership in the European Union and Nato. ↗

— Georgi Purvanov

#choice #european #european union #i #membership

We are aware that in 2005 our efforts to preserve the stability and prestige of the Republic of Bulgaria in the area of foreign policy, and our efforts to attain fully our strategic goals will be mostly contingent upon the way we address our domestic priorities. ↗

— Georgi Purvanov

#area #attain #aware #bulgaria #contingent

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#authoritarian #democratic #devised #dictatorships #forms

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#calling #i #i am #must #needs

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#deliberately #interpreted #our #strengthening #times

To be is to be the value of a variable. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#variable

In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country. ↗

— Karl Radek

#appear #broad #country #general #labour

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure. ↗

— James Rainwater

#belief #fitted #great #maria #mayer