Leon Trotsky Quotes
Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue to fight mercilessly, stopping at nothing. The execution of the Tsar's family was needed not only in order to frighten, horrify, and dishearten the enemy but also in order to shake up our own ranks, to show them that there was no turning back, that ahead lay either complete victory or complete ruin.
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.
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In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
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It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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Everybody just uses the one-move rule without realising when it is too late to actually move and cross over and when it is actually being dangerous.
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If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.
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If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.
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Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue to fight mercilessly, stopping at nothing. The execution of the Tsar's family was needed not only in order to frighten, horrify, and dishearten the enemy but also in order to shake up our own ranks, to show them that there was no turning back, that ahead lay either complete victory or complete ruin.
