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...believe in my people. Nobody will be surprised if I say I love them. They are a small but splendid nation and have a huge potential. One should not spare his own life to save his people. Now, we are standing at the threshold. We either survive or we perish. I want to be with my people at this most difficult time...
...They don't know what is going on in Russia," complained a lawyer. "The bureaucracy is tainted by the mafia. If something is not done, Russia will perish...
...burgeons on screen, nature budding everywhere. From the contrast, one might assume that the characters of the film ascend from the depths of despair to at least a moderate altitude of happiness. On the contrary--what the audience undergoes could only be positively construed as tragic catharsis, where multitudes perish for the audience's emotional benefit...
Although some die when vessels sink, many perish as a result of falling overboard without personal flotation devices. In several cases, the victims could have been kept afloat long enough to be rescued by fellow crew members...
...Clinton said, quoting the Bible in his acceptance of the Democratic nomination a year ago, "Where there is no vision, the people perish." Democracy as such is not in doubt today: most people would pass up the chance to have another "strong" leader like Hitler or Stalin. But the debate over where democracy can take societies, as distinct from whether it is a good thing, was frozen for many years by the cold war struggle. In its wake, governments are hard pressed to supply inspiration...