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"On numerous occasions, Benito Mussolini identified his economic policies with “state capitalism”—the exact phrase that Vladimir Lenin used to usher in his New Economic Policy ."

"That was scarier than Richard Simmons chasin' after you with a box of rubbers!"

"We could figure out ways with small aerospace companies to do a low-cost spacecraft and lander. But we could not find a way to do a low-cost launcher, unless we went to the Russians."

"It was my first chance to rub shoulders with the immensely talented Amitabh Bachchan and we went on to become a super hit pair"

"Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the…"

"Patrick Dixon blog with daily quotes on current topics"

"I stood in front of him and I saw an old, stooped, bloated man with gray, slick hair, barely standing on his legs."

"Hi, how are you today? I'm Tony, I'm going to be your server. I've got some very exciting specials to tell you folks about right here. We've got our deep-pan re-re-fried chocolate ice cream pizza, whi…"

"He wore the purple; it was his entitlement. With it he had neither wreath nor jewels. For him the best adornment of rank was acute native intelligence."

"A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House..."

"We are perceived as a nation at war with Muslims. This debilitating and dangerous perception must be reversed."

"First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others."

"I observe the physician, with the same diligence, as he the disease; I see he fears, and I fear with him..."

"There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm."

"You know what's great about my mom? She compulsively swears and doesn't know it. Like...I mean, she doesn't have Tourettes. I could never get that lucky. Can you imagine how it would be to have parent…"

"I was like you once, Tim. Blonde hair, scraggly beard, child-like ears. Full of beans and spunk. I once punched a bloke in the face for saying Hawk the Slayer was rubbish... but that's not the point, …"

"He soon made his name as a distinctly awkward fast left-arm bowler whose pounding run to the wicket was filled with menace."

"With regard to White House officials, it will be up to the President to decide frankly whether and when and under what circumstances members of his testify."

"Do you not know that close to your doors a great multitude of men and women, flesh of your flesh, live lives that are one agony from birth to death? Listen! their dwellings are so near that if you hus…"

"The joke is not on Modi. The joke is on the "educated" elite/middle class supporters of Modi who have made idiocy and ignorance fashionable."