Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
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The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal distinction of America's National Tree.
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When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.
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France has to accelerate in terms of reform.
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For a while, I drank the juice - I did things the way everybody else said to. I listened to their advice. But it didn't work.
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People in California don't live in a place so much as they do a condition.
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A lot of cops in fiction are very depressive and are kind of downbeat, and they've got all kinds of existential angst that they're dealing with.
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It is only as we govern ourselves that we are well-governed.
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The man you love cooking for you is good for you too.
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Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed by other Panthers just within - internecine warfare. It just began to seem like we were in an impossible task given what we were facing.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life.
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Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?
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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.
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The goal of this presentation is to impress, rather than inform.
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If you can conceive something in your mind and believe it to be true, then you can achieve it.
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You will come in any case - so why not now? How long I wait and wait. The bad times fall. I have put out the light and opened the door for you, because you are simple and magical. Assume, then, any form that suits your wish, take aim, and blast at me with poisoned shot, or strangle me like an efficient mugger, or else infect me - typhus be my lot -
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Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes vulgar and unacceptable. It is necessary first to pan though all other poetry in order to become a political poet.
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Bodies aren't the same as Coca-Cola cans.
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Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on
