{"quotes":[{"text":"Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.","author":"Alex Morritt","tags":["aggression","armageddon","armies","army","caucasus","caucasus-region","checkmate","checks-and-balances","cold-war","conflict-management","conflict-resolution","conflicts","cool-response","crimea","defence","defences","destruction-of-us","diplomacy","eastern-europe","eastern-european","end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it","error","errors","escalation","fear-of-unknown","fear","fears","fears-and-doubts","force","forces","forces-of-darkness","geopolitical-forces","geopolitical-tension","geopolitics","historical-perspective","history-repeating-itself","impasse","inexorably","international-community","international-relations","international-relationships","lack-of-judgement","learning-from-mistakes","lessons-learned","lessons-learned-in-life","lessons-of-life","live-and-learn","mexican-standoff","military","military-history","military","military-theory","moscow","moscow-rules","nato","nuclear-power","nuclear-proliferation","nuclear-threat","nuclear-weapons","one-upmanship","peace-on-earth","peace","peacemaker","political-commentary","political-quandary","political","politics-observation","poor-judgement","poor-leadership","power-struggle","power-struggles","quandary","red-army","regressing","regression","repeat-mistakes","repeated-mistake","repeating-the-past","rules-of-engagement","russia","russian-federation","sabre-rattling","shiver","shivers","sliding","soviet-occupation","soviet-russia","soviet-union","sphere-of-influence","spine-chilling","stalemate","standoff","struggles","super-powers","tension","treaty","troops","ukraine","warfare","warmonger","wars","weapons-of-mass-destruction"],"id":105706,"author_id":"Alex+Morritt"},{"text":"How does one go on after doing such unspeakable things? It'sall rather simple, really,' he continued, speaking in someone else's voice. 'Say to yourself, 'What things?' And it becomes clear...You are blameless. They brought it on themselves. What have they ever done for you except control your life? They tore you away from your sister; they ripped you from your home. Did you ask to be saved? No! Forget them and start over...With us, your true family, my Corcitura, my own.","author":"Melika Dannese Lux","tags":["corcitura","hybrid-vampires","interior-struggle","menace","power-struggle","vampires","vladec-salei"],"id":113043,"author_id":"Melika+Dannese+Lux"},{"text":"The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.","author":"Wayne Gerard Trotman","tags":["chi-ro-jin","politicians","politics","power-struggle","sci-fi","science-fiction","scifi","statesmanship","wisdom"],"id":133036,"author_id":"Wayne+Gerard+Trotman"},{"text":"You have to be a dead-eyed dirty-souled maniac to want to spend your extended life trading punches with other maniacs. Once you've seized that power, there's no getting off the merry-go-round. You fight like hell just to hold on or you get shoved off.","author":"Scott Lynch","tags":["coup","politics","power","power-struggle"],"id":137300,"author_id":"Scott+Lynch"},{"text":"I believe a family can be like that sports team. A successful family wins as a team. But if its members are intent upon winning their own individual battles with one another, the team loses. A winning solution is to work out the differences and, when it’s over, let it be over. Then they can get back in the game as a team.","author":"Steve Goodier","tags":["conflict","conflict-in-families","differences","family","family-relationships","power","power-struggle","successful-families","successful-relationships","teamwork","winning"],"id":207398,"author_id":"Steve+Goodier"},{"text":"In truth, we were similar. Like two sides of a fan, we were at odds with each other, we competed with each other, but our fates similarly rested in the hands of the Emperor--the holder, the commander, the manipulator of our destinies.","author":"Weina Dai Randel","tags":["power-struggle","surveillance","women"],"id":361512,"author_id":"Weina+Dai+Randel"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}