"The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune."

-- Friedrich Engels

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“All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.”

Source : Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”
“Let's build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky.”

Source : Attributed to Bob Ross in "Painter Bob Ross remains an iconic figure years after his death" by Ann Curry, NBC News, September 22, 2004.
“Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions.”
“When you want something bad enough, you work your butt off for it.”
“Women age early, and their mistake is not knowing where to hide all the time that lies behind them so that no one sees it. What are they to do, devour it like the umbilical cords of their children? Hell and damnation!”

Source : Elfriede Jelinek, Michael Hulse (1992). “Lust”, Profile Books
“Normally I can't watch playback. I can't watch anything because I know that it's so rough and there's going to be effects that are added, there's going to be sound effects, there's going to be so much stuff that happens between this point and that finished product that it just ruins the illusion for me.”
“There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.”
“Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.”

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