Once The Fight Is On-strike Quickly And

Vladimir Putin Inherited A Ransacked And Bewildered Country, With A Poor And Demoralized People. And He Started To Do What Was Possible - A Slow And Gradual Restoration. These Efforts Were Not Noticed, Nor Appreciated, Immediately. In Any Case, One Is Hard Pressed To Find Examples In History When Steps By One Country To Restore Its Strength Were Met Favorably By Other Governments.

The Intellectual Is Not Defined By Professional Group And Type Of Occupation. Nor Are Good Upbringing And A Good Family Enough In Themselves To Produce An Intellectual. An Intellectual Is A Person Whose Interest In And Preoccupation With The Spiritual Side Of Life Are Insistent And Constant And Not Forced By External Circumstances, Even Flying In The Face Of Them. An Intellectual Is A Person Whose Thought Is Nonimitative.

Only Those Who Decline To Scramble Up The Career Ladder Are Interesting As Human Beings. Nothing Is More Boring Than A Man With A Career.

It Is The Artist Who Realizes That There Is A Supreme Force Above Him And Works Gladly Away As A Small Apprentice Under God's Heaven.

The Task Of The Artist Is To Sense More Keenly Than Others The Harmony Of The World, The Beauty And The Outrage Of What Man Has Done To It, And Poignantly To Let People Know.