"...the collapse of tsarism, while not improbably, was certainly not inevitable."

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Richard Pipes

#Inevitable Quotes #Collapse Quotes

“I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.”
“The mental pattern must always precede the material form.”
“American Jewry makes any debate on whether the â€˜Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zionâ€™ are an authentic document or a forgery irrelevant. American Jews do control the world.”
“She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.”

Source : Patrick White (2011). “Voss”, p.63, Random House
“Have you found your life distasteful? My life did, and does, smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I saved and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish? When mine fail me, I'll complain. Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.”
“I've lived through what seems to most - and myself - many lives.”
“To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he is sinful is to trace his behavior to a supposed inner trait. But whether or not a person engages in the kind of behavior called sinful depends upon circumstances which are not mentioned in either question. The sin assigned as an inner possession (the sin a person "knows") is to be found in a history of reinforcement.”
“The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.”

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