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Honestly, the only reason King Tut is famous is that most Pharaohs had their graves robbed by ancient people, and King Tut had his grave robbed by 20th-century British people.

 

The community must be able to trust their air, water, and soil is not a threat to their health following this train derailment

 

Dear world, I am leaving you because I am bored.

 

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

 

Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.

 

“I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.”

 

Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.

 

We should let the students read fiction and take a nap in class, and we should look after their health. Teachers should lecture less and make the students read more.

 

Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.

 

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

 

Nothing is going to fundamentally change.

 

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

 

America celebrates civil rights as if the movement that sought them was victorious.
But the movement was vilified, its leaders assassinated, and its policy “victories” limited—and then later reversed.

 

Another such victory over the Romans and we are undone.

 

Young voters felt like this was betraying the climate goals they had set forth.

 

Give me liberty or give me death

 

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@POTUS
is wrong. The approval of a massive oil development project on federal lands is a mistake we will regret for generations. The Willow project’s devastating consequences will be suffered by all of us. We must move forward not backward.

 

The colonial populations were drawn into the European war on an unprecedented scale. Indians, Blacks, Arabs and Malagasy fought on the territories of Europe—for the sake of what? For the right to remain the slaves of Britain and France. Never before has the infamy of capitalist rule in the colonies been delineated so clearly; never before has the problem of colonial slavery been posed so sharply as it is today.

 

You have sat there for far too long for any good you have done of late. Depart then I say and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

 

Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint your picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughness, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me; otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.

 

I'm certainly a beneficiary of this state-based, quasi-market system; does that mean that I shouldn't try to make it a better society? If I gave away my car, I would feel even more guilty. When I go to visit peasants in southern Colombia, they don't want me to give up my car. They want me to help them. Suppose I gave up material things -- my computer, my car and so on -- and went to live on a hill in Montana where I grew my own food. Would that help anyone? No.

 

"Fool me once, shame on...shame on me. Fool me twice...Well if I once fool you I won't fool you again!"

 

“Loans and grants” from the state, too, are bound to benefit the bourgeois peasantry in the first place. The “peasant agrarian revolution” is nothing but the subordination of the whole system of land ownership to the conditions of progress and prosperity of precisely these capitalist farms.

Money rent is the moribund yesterday, which cannot but die out. Capitalist rent is the nascent tomorrow, which cannot but develop under the Stolypin expropriation of the poor peasants (“under Article 87”), as well as under the peasant expropriation of the richest landlords.

 

When we hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope we use.

 

''We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, We shall never surrender''