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Jai Ganesh

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Cold Quotes - V

Cold Quotes - V

1. In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere. - Atal Bihari Vajpayee

2. You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there. - Monica Seles

3. Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe. - Angela Merkel

4. I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with every syndication, every country; I've done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there's honestly nothing that's gonna intimidate me! - Emma Watson

5. The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically. - Tony Blair

6. The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible. - Lech Walesa

7. Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military. - Vladimir Putin

8. I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now? - Vladimir Putin.

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