On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold.

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Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996... view

By: Todd Akin

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I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart... view

By: Peter Stuyvesant

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The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?.. view

By: Stephen Sondheim

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The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart... view

By: Alfred de Vigny

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Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end... view

By: Vinoba Bhave

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The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy... view

By: Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry... view

By: John Drinkwater

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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life... view

By: Pablo Picasso

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They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech... view

By: James Stockdale

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Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past... view

By: Peter Pace

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The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces... view

By: Thomas Aquinas

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