"Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin."

-- Mary Heaton Vorse

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“Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them.”
“There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.”

Source : Leon Trotsky (2007). “My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography”, p.429, Courier Corporation
“I am excited about focusing full-time on talking about my job-creation agenda and building a new economy for Washington state. We have a great chance to seize our own destiny, build our own industries, and create our own technological revolutions right here at home.”

Source : "Jay Inslee, Washington Congressman, Resigning To Focus On Gubernatorial Campaign" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2012.
“Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.”
“It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made he (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one...that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.”
“It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life.”
“If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.”
“Forget hydrogen, forget hydrogen, forget hydrogen.”

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