Leon Trotsky Quotes
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
Leon Trotsky
Quotes to Explore
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Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.
T. D. Jakes
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Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights.
Lisa Kudrow
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Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, the fire dancing in his eyes; his wand was raised like a torch and from its tip emanated the flames, like a vast lasso, encircling them all with warmth.
Joanne Rowling
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Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.
Adrian Rogers
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Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
Vance Havner
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That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.
Ursula Nordstrom
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Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem.
H. Burke Peterson
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Different critics go to different lengths to disagree with that sentiment, but ultimately, they're the person experiencing this art, and whatever judgment or taste they use is internal, and says more about them than about the record they're writing about.
Chuck Klosterman
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Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.
Stephen Spender
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I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I write both at home and at coffee shops, and I have a terrible work ethic - I have a tendency to write most of my books right before the deadline. I'm trying to work on that, but so far, I'm not getting any more organized.
Elizabeth Hoyt
