Leon Trotsky Quotes
The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
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Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
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I can afford to get Tesco's finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones.
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As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.
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I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.
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A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.
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I will surrender to the moment today.
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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.