Vladimir Lenin Quotes
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
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I am deathless, I am the eternal Lord For I have spread the seed of the Word.
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Don't show up to prove. Show up to improve.
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Some years ago our Japanese counterparts asked us to resume the discussions of the issue and so we did meeting them halfway. Over the passed couple of years the contacts were practically frozen on the initiative of the Japanese side, not ours. At the same time, presently our partners have expressed their eagerness to resume discussions on this issue [the Kuril Islands].
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Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion....they need our legs & lungs of endurance.
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I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.
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Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.
