"We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom."

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Source : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

Emanuel Celler

#Believe Quotes #Tactics Quotes #Communism Quotes

“That was the summer of 1963, when everybody called me â€˜Baby,â€™ and it didn't occur to me to mind.”

Source : "Fictional character: Baby". "Dirty Dancing", www.imdb.com. August 21, 1987.
“I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.”
“Well, as a short-story writer, I don't think there are any weaknesses to the genre itself. I guess I would say that the difficulty of the form is that one must create an entire world in five to 30 pages, as opposed to 300. There is very little room for fat - you must be economical. And you must begin as close to the end as you possibly can.”
“For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges.”
“I think most of us maintain some sort of fantasy in our minds that we are heroes, if only secretly, that we could really be amazing if only given a chance. That we could all be loved one day. You can always think of yourself as being transcendent or heroic. I think we all are.”
“We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.”
“If youâ€™re comparing the badness of two words and you wonâ€™t even say one of them [the n-word], thatâ€™s the worse word.”
“No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.”

Source : Frank Norris (2012). “McTeague”, p.92, Penguin

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