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“The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.”

Ends Country States Political Social Challenges Economic Drama Unions Historical Profound Financial Russia Ruins Soviet Soviet Union

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.”

Ends Mankind Wind Kings Ruins Desert

Book:Works

Source: Works

“In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided by any thing lower than an inflexible will, fixed in obedience to God, will in the end be shaped into a deformity, and guided to wreck and ruin”

World Heart Long Ends Running Decision Weakness Gods Will Ruins Obedience Fixed Long Runs Wickedness Wrecks Deformity Obedience To God

Book:MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near.”

Ifs World Ends Seems Past Rich Century Periods Curiosity Ruins Apartment End Of The World Gothic Renaissance Cabinets Antiquity Predicaments

Author:Alfred de Musset

“State authority can never be an end in itself; for, if that were so, any kind of tyranny would be inviolable and sacred. If a government uses the instruments of power in its hands for the purpose of leading a people to ruin, then rebellion is not only the right but also the duty of every individual citizen.”

Source: Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)

“All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage at the end and you were happy; or you had the terrible Henry James savage downfall because of your own hubris as a woman, or you've made some great error leading you down a path to ruin. One is the story of love that's successful and the other is the story usually of reckless love that goes terribly wrong that destroys the woman.”

Made Two Ends Stories Path Successful Century Terrible Errors Ruins Savages Jane Reckless 19th Century Downfall Hubris Austen

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.”

Ifs Men Ends Courses Ruins Compensation

Author:Arthur Alfred Lynch