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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I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.
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Before the gods and after, always, are the streams. Caves, stones, hills. Trees. The earth. The darkness of the earth.
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Madame Chairman, I presume this is to sweep Britain clean of socialism
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The pleasing punishment that women bear.
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The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.
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Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.
