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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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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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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I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion
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For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.
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Outside Adelaide, Australia: '...they showed us some of the native aborigines at a wayside station in the great plain yesterday afternoon though they are the most revolting form of living creatures I've ever seen !! They are the lowest known form of human beings & are the nearest thing to monkeys I've ever seen' (11 July 1920)
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
