"Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power."

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Source : Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

Garet Garrett

“Women? Women are like...thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient.”

Source : Brandon Sanderson (2010). “Mistborn: The Final Empire”, p.380, Macmillan
“My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life”
“The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.”

Source : Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.26, Bantam
“Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and in taking a point of view that enables us to see the principles, ideas and things in right relation to each other.”
“You're in an awfully good mood," he observed. "Was there a sale at Khakis-R-Us?”
“...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.”

Source : Jack L. Chalker (1999). “90 Trillion Fausts”, p.133, Baen Books
“Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.”
“Maybe we'll stop training our kids to stop looking at someone and automatically seeing them as Black or White or of this religion or that one etc, and instead, as a human being. Maybe we can stop forcing our ideas like, "I don't want them to marry this person because they are of this religion or this color" on them.”

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