Georgi Plekhanov Quotes

There is no historical fact that did not owe its origin to social economics; but it is no less true to say that there is no historical fact that was not preceded, not accompanied, and not succeeded by a definite state of consciousness.

Georgi Plekhanov

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• I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.

  

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• For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.

  

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• I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.

  

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• The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.

  

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• I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.

  

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• Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

  

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• It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.

  

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• You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

  

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• I just find the people I want to work with and put it all together, and it's a lot of hard work, and all kinds of catastrophes happen, but I don't really get too much resistance. But when you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made.

  

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• Men are kids at heart. They want to be nourished and pet like a dog.

  

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• How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.

  

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• You always have a burning desire to do well, ... It wouldn't matter if it was the first year, second year, third year.

  

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• It seemed, however, that I had. I didn’t want any more, so I got them. And now I am glad, for if, as I had sometimes wished at that time, I could have finished with a consciousness become unbearable, if, in other words, I had then died, I would never have known a great many very beautiful and delightful things. Evidently, then, it is wise not too soon to lose patience with life, but to wait and see what it may have round its next corner.

  

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• If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect Zen masters. We could gnaw on a bone, take a nap, play with a spider until we killed it, get our litter just right, and be innocently and serenely present. Meaning would mean nothing to us, nor would we need it to mean anything. We would be free, and we would be spared. But, we are human beings, and we posses that odd duck – human consciousness.

  

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• I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.

  

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• I think Slayer is a funky band.

  

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• Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche.

  

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• There is no historical fact that did not owe its origin to social economics; but it is no less true to say that there is no historical fact that was not preceded, not accompanied, and not succeeded by a definite state of consciousness.

  

  Georgi Plekhanov
  • Consciousness
  • Fact
  • Historical