"There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent."

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Source : "A century's journey: how the great powers shape the world". Book by Robert A. Pastor, Stanley Hoffmann, p. 175, 1999.

Mikhail Tukhachevsky

#Fire Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Revolutionary Quotes

“Back of the job-the dreamer Who's making the dream come true!”
“Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit to give heft to its slither, it is gloriously onomatopoetic.”

Source : Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Itâ€™s disgusting that some focus on looks. I brought a beautiful child into this world.”
“Dear Baby, I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for 20 minutes straight and that's all they do. They don't pull away. They don't look at your face. They don't try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms and hold on tight, without an ounce of selfishness to it.”
“Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having this store as the backdrop with all of society working under one roof, I think it really captures people's imaginations.”
“I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea”
“It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.131, Granta Books
“Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.”

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