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Quotation of the Day for March 28, 2014"The goal of politics is to make us children. The more heinous the system the more this is true. The Soviet system worked best when its adults-â€"its men,in particular-â€"were welcomed to stay at the emotional level of not-particularly-advanced teenagers. Often at a dinner table, a male Homo soveticus will say something uncouth, hurtful, disgusting, because this is his teenager's right and prerogative, this is what the system has raised him to be, and his wife will say, Da tishe!-â€"Be quiet!-â€"and then look around the table, embarrassed. And the man will laugh bitterly to himself and say, Nu ladno, it's nothing, and wave away the venom he has left on the table." - Gary Shteyngart, from his memoir Little Failure. [The submitter notes: I dedicate this quotation to Vladimir Putin.] Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 26, 2014  |
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