"We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends -- the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it."

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Source : Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1959). “Basic writings on politics and philosophy”, Anchor

Friedrich Engels

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“After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended life that would be forever gray and meaningless if you did not somehow come back to me. I put back the pieces of my heart and kept on living. I am not the woman I was when I was in love with you and expecting to marry you. I am not the woman I was when I heard that you were married. I am the woman I have become in the five years since then, and she is a totally different person. I like her. I wish to continue living her life.”
“I've been active in a minor way compared to professional activists. I was a labor leader. I led two labor strikes. I've manipulated boards. I've led marches. I've done many things.”

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“Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.”
“I'm not interested in an imaginary world”
“I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.”
“IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.”

Source : Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.43
“[Kids] are just like annoying short people”
“You need to be able to SHARE IDEAS, INSPIRE and MOTIVATE”

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