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“It is important for us (European Union) not to give a signal that we will be blackmailed by Putin.”

Robert Habeck (1969) German politician

Robert Habeck (2022) cited in: " Russia's Putin tells Europe: Pay in roubles or we'll cut off your gas https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/russias-putin-tells-europe-pay-in-roubles-or-well-cut-off-your-gas" in The Straits Times, 1 April 2022.

“I just want to say if I cannot win the gold eventually, I will not let my rivals win easily. We need to fight for it. I can accept not standing on the highest podium, but I will never give up.”

Zhang Yufei (1998) Chinese swimmer

"Zhang swims and smiles her way into nation's hearts" in China Daily https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202107/27/WS60ff5a12a310efa1bd664845.html (27 July 2021)

Fight

“Just treat every day as a new day to swim. When it's used up, recharge it, and when it's used up, recharge it again.”

Zhang Yufei (1998) Chinese swimmer

"Forced to open! Zhang Yufei: At the beginning of the National Games, I only signed up for 6 items, but the coach secretly added 2 items" in 163.com https://www.163.com/dy/article/GK9TP0F60529ETIH.html (19 September 2021)

“At the beginning, I thought I was an ordinary athlete, and I didn't think too much about it. But as people asked me for a lot of things, I also felt that I should pay attention to my words and deeds. No longer. Can't let my temper anymore.”

Zhang Yufei (1998) Chinese swimmer

"Forced to open! Zhang Yufei: At the beginning of the National Games, I only signed up for 6 items, but the coach secretly added 2 items" in 163.com https://www.163.com/dy/article/GK9TP0F60529ETIH.html (19 September 2021)

People , Thinking

“Ridiculous. But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 1, “Festival Night” (p. 7)

People

“You just don’t have faith!”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Frank repeated.
”Well I hope I never get it! It’s like being hit by a hammer in the head!”
Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 2, “The Voyage Out” (p. 53)

Faith

“The urge to excel and the urge to lead aren’t the same. Sometimes I think they may be opposites.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 2, “The Voyage Out” (p. 67)

Thinking

“Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 2, “The Voyage Out” (p. 85)

Happiness , Beauty , World

“Being on Mars will change us in an evolutionary way.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Arkady shook his head vehemently, causing him to spin a little in the air over the table. “No, no, no, no! History is not evolution! It is a false analogy! Evolution is a matter of environment and chance, acting over millions of years. But history is a matter of environment and choice, acting within lifetimes, and sometimes within years, or months, or days! History is Lamarckian! So that if we choose to establish certain institutions on Mars, there they will be! And if we choose others, there they will be!”
Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 2, “The Voyage Out” (p. 88)

Way , Change

“So life adapts to conditions. And at the same time, conditions are changed by life. That is one of the definitions of life: organism and environment change together in a reciprocal arrangement, as they are two manifestations of an ecology, two parts of a whole.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 4, “Homesick” (p. 205)

Change , Time , Life , Parting

“You can’t make love to your fame. Even though some people try.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 4, “Homesick” (p. 221)

Love , Making love , People

“Very little detective work could be accomplished before a crime occurred.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 5, “Falling into History” (p. 276)

“Well, societies without a plan, that was history so far; but history so far had been a nightmare, a huge compendium of examples to be avoided.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 5, “Falling into History” (p. 284)

History

“Most ignorance is by choice, you know, and so ignorance is very telling about what really matters to people.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 5, “Falling into History” (p. 375)

People

“Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 394)

Money , Law

“It was a mistake to speak one’s mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did. Best to strip all statements of real content, this was a basic law of diplomacy.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 418)

Time , Law

“In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 431)

Game , Life , Change

“Friendship was just diplomacy by other means, after all.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 432)

Friendship

“Some of them defined ideology as an imaginary relationship to a real situation.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 460)

“It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 461)

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