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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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.
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No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.
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Sometimes I think that the amount of time you live on earth is just an inverse reflection of how good you were in a previous existence. For example, infants who die from SIDs were actually great people when they were alive for real, so they get to go to heaven after a mere five weeks in purgatory. Meanwhile anyone Willard Scott ever congratulated for turning one hundred two was obviously a terrible individual who had many many previous sins to pay for and had to spend a century in his or her own unknown purgatory even though the person seemed perfectly wholesome in this particular world.
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He who does not work shall not eat
