Ernest Mandel Quotes

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders

Ernest Mandel

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• General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.

  

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• Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
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• I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.

  

  Jack Dangermond
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• I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
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• I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
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• Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'

  

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• I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

  

  Ian Anderson
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• One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Time
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• I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
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• Obviously, I don't live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like there's definitely something to it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
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• Shopping for hijabs has always been fun for me. I was so excited to begin wearing a headscarf. I had always looked up to my mother as she wore hers, and I was eager to emulate her beauty and the wonderful things she represented.

  

  Halima Aden
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• I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.

  

  Walter Lord
  • Writing
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• Michael Jordan was that guy - he was Michael Jordan. So whatever he did, we followed.

  

  Zach LaVine
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• When we patch things up,They say a job well done.But when we ask the question whyWhere did the rips come from?,They say we are subversive,And extreme, of course.We are just trying to track a problem to its source.

  

  Ani DiFranco
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• Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Up
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• Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.

  

  Ai Weiwei
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• To finance deficits, the government must sell bonds to investors, competing for capital that could otherwise be used to invest in stocks or corporate bonds. Government borrowings raise long-term interest rates, stifling economic growth.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Long
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• Most people don't want to change. They're comfortable and set in their ways. But in order to change, you have to be able to agitate people at times. And I think that's something that's very necessary for us to improve as a country.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
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• I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where the hero just goes beyond what I think could exist. And it doesn't interest me because I'm not learning anything about something I'll actually have to deal with.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Science
  • Learning
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• At five years old, I became the man of the house. When he left, my dad let me know that. It put a certain drive in me that I can't explain.

  

  Dominick Cruz
  • House
  • Dad

• This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.

  

  David W. Blight
  • American
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• And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Revolution
  • Leader
  • Groups