“Because of their friendship, Prince Albert enthusiastically supported the Russian president and occasionally did his bidding. I’d heard stories about Putin’s enemies checking into Monaco hotels, presenting their passports, and finding themselves arrested within minutes by the local police.”
― Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
― Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
“was the first to speak after the movie finished. I made my pitch for the Magnitsky resolution, and concluded, “As you can see, there’s now no difference between the Russian government and organized crime.”
― Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
― Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
“determined, America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons. . . . Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country’s cause, a Declaration of Independence, and call upon the world and the great God who governs it to witness the necessity, propriety and rectitude thereof. The”
― 1776
― 1776
“profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a strong compulsion to learn by doing is one of the most reliable signs of genius.”
― A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Novel Laureate John Nash
― A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Novel Laureate John Nash
“One learns more,’ she said to me one day, ‘talking to ignorant people about their own affairs, than in addressing oneself to”
― Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power
― Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power
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