"And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails."

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Source : "Open Letter to Comrade Lenin" by Herman Gorter, www.marxists.org. 1920.

Herman Gorter

#Country Quotes #Two Quotes #Switzerland Quotes

“Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another.”
“My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.”
“Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?”

Source : "The Greening of America". Book by Charles A. Reich, 1970.
“It's extreme. The character comes back from the dead, and, at first he doesn't know where he is, how he got there.... How does that tie in with the physicality? I just didn't think he should be too healthy-looking, so I lost some weight for the role.”
“I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.”
“You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?”
“I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.”
“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.”

Source : 'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'The Two Races of Men'

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