Ernest Mandel Quotes
Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
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My husband and I are just really laid back people.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success.
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Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping for larger privileges for the growing family of children, they brought them to the New World, the world of many intellectual as well as material advantages.
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We can enhance democracy by making it in line with its original vision. Read the dollar bill - E pluribus unum, out of many, one; novus ordo seclorum, a new order of the ages. That's democracy.
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Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.
