Leon Trotsky Quotes
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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I'm not a Republican.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.
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My calling was first of all to ensure there was peace in the country, because we could easily have gone back to war. In the midst of the country, there were still warlords; there were many child soldiers who had never gone to school - they were part of the social setting - compromises had to be made.
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I was told freshman Republicans don't get their bills heard.
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Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1979).
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First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
