"Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marxâ€™s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism."

-- Joseph Stalin

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“Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.”

Source : Elaine Scarry (1985). “The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World”, p.85, Oxford University Press
“His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am." What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.”
“Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and fooled, still there is left to the genuine works of all times a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence; and as if by a miracle, we see them rise at last out of the turmoil like a balloon that floats up out of the thick atmosphere of this globe into purer regions. Having once arrived there, it remains at rest, and no one can any longer draw it down again.”
“The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.”
“Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying.”
“Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical.”
“Direct selling provides an opportunity open to absolutely everyone, regardless of background, specialized skills or capital worth.”
“He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.”

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