Leon Trotsky Quotes
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.
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Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.
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Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
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You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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It is good to be a cynic-it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world-we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death-the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
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The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
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The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor – hence, on the changing state of business, on the vagaries of unbridled competition.
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So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.
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Airline pilots are men to be admired and respected. Men to be trusted. Men of means. And you don't expect an airline pilot to be a local resident. Or a check swindler.
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In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
