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last updated: November 28, 2023

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
-- Fidel Castro

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Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot.
-- Margaret Thatcher

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Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
-- Nikita Khrushchev

Source : Speech to Western diplomats, Moscow, 18 Nov. 1956.

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If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
-- Nikita Khrushchev

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Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
-- Vladimir Lenin

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Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.
-- Li Peng

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“Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.”
“I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference.”
“Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.”
“Some bands write and it is just the singer and the guitarist that do it all and then the rest of the band follows their vision. This is cool, and as you know I have been part of a few amazing bands that did this and I am not complaining.”
“I took whatever the devil offered me.”
“Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than most of us care to imagine. Cities, after all, for all their massiveness, all their there-ness, are acutely vulnerable.”
“The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.”
“if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow”
“There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach in the entire world. With those kinds of odds, it would seem downright naive for someone to go to a beach in, say, some out-of-the-way inlet in Baffin Bay, stoop to pick up only one tiny grain of sand, and declare that that grain alone was the only place where life could exist.”
“The most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China was Chinas golden age, and contrary to what I was told when I was growing up, Tang China was founded by a man who by todays standards was no more than half Chinese. It was a mixed-blood dynasty that pulled in barbarians from the steppe.”