Friedrich Engels Quotes

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

Friedrich Engels

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• Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.

  

  Earl Browder
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• I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.

  

  Victor Garber
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• I'm a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I've been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can't eat often, I know what's available where.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
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• I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?

  

  Larry King
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• A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

  

  Patrick Kane
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• It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

  

  Oliver Evans
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• When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.

  

  Madchen Amick
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• I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.

  

  Harry Browne
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• The sort of the most efficient way for online dating marketplace to evolve and, in fact, any marketplace to evolve is to have one really big market where people can enter and exit as they please, where people have really advanced search, sort, and filtering technology.

  

  Sam Yagan
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• If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down.

  

  Tamsin Greig
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• I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
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• When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.

  

  Aaron Carter
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• The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they'd probably say yes, she's great, but.

  

  Diana Ross
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• An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet … this is the one real, vital principle that survives through all places and all times.

  

  Louis Sullivan
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• I had a conversation here today with someone asked, ‘Well, what about Pence? If you are able to impeach, Pence will be worse. Well, I said, ‘Look, one at a time. You knock one down, and we’ll be ready for Pence. We’ll get him, too.'

  

  Maxine Waters
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• The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

  

  Michael Caine
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• I'm the baddest among the bad guys.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

  

  Friedrich Engels