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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. Leon Trotsky
Man Age Old Old Age All Things Most Unexpected Happen Things
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. Maxim Gorky
Future Mom Think Birth Give Only Because Mothers Children
There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment's thought to anything, and comprehend everything. 'Blessed hands' is the name bestowed on these fortunate beings. The world envies, honours and respects them. Sholom Aleichem
People World Thought Blessed Everything Honours Respects Bestowed Comprehend Given Never Envies Name Know Understand Been Hands Taught Anything Anywhere Them Fortunate Moment Who Beings
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics. Vladimir Lenin
Politics Spiritual Seriously Conviction Other Rely Excellent Taken Qualities Devotion
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Time Rights Obligations Human Rights West Human Much Defend
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. Anton Chekhov
Fools Nothing Everything Pretend Charlatans Only He Know Understand Does Psychologist Should
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still. Anton Chekhov
Life You Heart Become Think Relations Complex About Terrifying Becomes Still Human Your Stands Human Relations
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. Ayn Rand
You Yourself Live Enjoy Morality Purpose Die Teach Suffer
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. Ayn Rand
Waiting Yourself Our Earth Ours Dream Greatness Heaven Whether Ask Us Should Now Graves Here
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. Ayn Rand
Happiness Achievement Values State Proceeds Which Consciousness
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. Ayn Rand
Man Wealth Think Capacity Product
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. Ayn Rand
Death Hope Whatever Hell Go Die Heaven
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. Ayn Rand
You Money Stupidity Men Weakness Demands Talent Sell Your Reason
To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality. Ayn Rand
Reality Mind Thinking Abdicate Oneself Maintain Arrive Error Contradiction Confess Realm
I praise loudly. I blame softly. Catherine the Great
Wisdom Blame Softly Praise Loudly
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being. Emma Goldman
Life Man Change Dignity Human Being Liberty Sanctity Every Well-Being Ultimate Ultimate End End Revolutionary Human Establish Being Social Social Change Human Life Right
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul. Emma Goldman
History Man Soul Woman Women Progress Cause Black Men Men And Women Dared Unpopular Instance Written His Blood The History Of Body Who Her Right
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Work Women Men Men And Women Lose Mad Raving Go Existence Deprived Meaningful Reason Stark
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love Death Men Worship Those Tortured Martyrs Prophets Accept Them Whom Slay
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. Leo Tolstoy
Life Faith Man Sense Live Virtue Destroy Force Himself Does Whereby Which
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. Leo Tolstoy
War Ugly Try Unjust Must Voice Within Stifle Wage Themselves Who Conscience
Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that? Nikita Khrushchev
You Together Will Opposing Holding Think Our Melt Systems Kind Shake Simply Between Daydream Diametrically Contradictions Get Hands Get Together Representatives Views Away Two
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State. Vladimir Lenin
Freedom Will State Exists While
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. Vladimir Lenin
History Class Own Able Only Develop Countries Effort The History Of Working Working-Class Shows Consciousness
Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen. Vladimir Putin
Illusion Will Military Possibility About Russia Superiority Allow Never Nobody Over Any Happen Gaining Should
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Freedom Heart Memory Nation Press Intrusion Merely Force Woe Up Short Literature Cut Interference Sealing Whose
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