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CAN KARACA There is little hope to find them alive.
CAN KARACA Bi sen eksiktin ayışığı
Gümüş bir tüy dikmek için manzaraya!
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Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams.
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You can be great.
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If you have chance why you won't use it?
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HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
AMIEL Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
AMIEL Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
HENRI-FRÉDERIC AMIEL Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
HENRI-FRÉDERIC AMIEL An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
HENRI-FRÉDERIC AMIEL By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
BARBARA AMIEL I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring ...
BARBARA AMIEL I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on t...
BARBARA AMIEL In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
BARBARA AMIEL It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was disto...
BARBARA AMIEL Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
BARBARA AMIEL Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.
BARBARA AMIEL Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. ...
BARBARA AMIEL Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if ...
BARBARA AMIEL The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It r...
BARBARA AMIEL The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
BARBARA AMIEL There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military...
BARBARA AMIEL It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
BARBARA AMIEL There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or w...
BARBARA AMIEL When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
BARBARA AMIEL Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expe...
BARBARA AMIEL Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political ...
BARBARA AMIEL They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
BARBARA AMIEL All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
BARBARA AMIEL The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benef...
BARBARA AMIEL The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
BARBARA AMIEL When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling o...
BARBARA AMIEL Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
BARBARA AMIEL I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on telev...
BARBARA AMIEL But to be frank and I think probably to the relief of many of you, I am withdrawing from the speakin...
BARBARA AMIEL