Dimitri Simes quotes

“Anyone who isn't confused doesn't understand what's going on.”
-- Dimitri Simes

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“We have vastly different hopes and expectations, as far as the U.S.-Russia relationship is concerned, in Moscow and Washington. What we need, however, is to manage this troubled relationship -- we don't want this relationship to go out of control.”
-- Dimitri Simes

Source : "Russian premier arrives in Washington to thaw Kosovo chill". www.cnn.com. July 26, 1999.

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“A great many of us have confused change with progress.”

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”

“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”

“A simple yet profound way to create a healthy body, a stress-free mind, and a peaceful sense of well-being.”

“Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.”

“In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.”

“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.”

“Anyone who isn't confused doesn't understand what's going on.”

“Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.”

“Who lives content with little possesses everything.”