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Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.
— Joe Biden
A lot of people think that they are leaders just because they have been placed in charge of something - and you're not.
— Shonda Rhimes
One advantage of not being in power is that we can dream of reshaping the world exactly as we please.
— Abhijit Banerjee
Harvard has plenty of people that are way more important than football players.
— Ryan Fitzpatrick
I think of the Tamil poet Subrahmanya Bharati every day, and he is an inspiration in my musical creations.
— Ilaiyaraaja
In the area I grew up, there were loads of gangs and stuff like that, and I was a bit of a fighter growing up. So, it was easy to be attracted to it, but I had my brother there giving me good advice, telling me it's pointless joining gangs, and things like that. I've always listened to him.
— Michail Antonio
My dream collaboration would be Elvis.
— Chord Overstreet
I can understand getting compared to the Kardashians.
— Huda Kattan
Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead - they call us.
— Barack Obama
From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.
— Alice Walker
The same strength which has extended our power beyond a continent has also interwoven our destiny with the destiny of many peoples and brought us into a vast web of history in which other wills, running in oblique or contrasting directions to our own, inevitably hinder or contradict what we most fervently desire. We cannot simply have our way, not even when we believe our way to have the "happiness of mankind" as its promise.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Power," said Henry Adams, "is poison"; and it is a poison which blinds the eyes of moral insight and lames the will of moral purpose. The
— Reinhold Niebuhr