James P. Cannon Quotes
No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
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In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
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Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.
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I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.
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I think we have much more to say about what happens to us than most people believe.
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The best thing Clinton could do - I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure - is to shut up.... He has no discipline.
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
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Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.
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Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.
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An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.
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Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.
