Joseph Stalin Quotes
We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in defiance of the pact. This was a definite gain to our country and a loss for fascist Germany.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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I think some of the best songs are written in love and then out of love. That's the best time to put something together.
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Reign, and keep life in this our deep desire Our only greatness is that we aspire.
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The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.
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The problem is there are people in this country - maybe 10%, I don't know what the number, maybe 20% on a bad day - who want this President to have an asterisk next to his name in the history books, that he really wasn't President....They can't stand the idea that he is President, and a piece of it is racism. Not that somebody in one racial group doesn't like somebody in another racial group. So what? It is the sense that the white race must rule. That's what racism is. And they can't stand the idea that a man who is not white is President.
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We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in defiance of the pact. This was a definite gain to our country and a loss for fascist Germany.
