Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.
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things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.
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I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does.
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When one door opens, so does another one.
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.
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Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
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Where does the body end and the mind begin? Where does the mind end and the spirit begin? They cannot be divided as they are inter-related and but different aspects of the same all-pervading divine consciousness.
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The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself.
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Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.
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Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
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I know what the world is like. Nobody does anything unless there's something in it for themselves. But there are some people who do more than they have to for what they get in return, and those people are kind right to the heart.
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Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.
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Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.
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Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.
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The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.
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The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
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Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.
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Anyone who takes a seat in the Bundestag does so within a Europeanized constitutional framework.
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Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.
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My attention span is very short.
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He who does not work shall not eat