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"You are now at a crossroads. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this…"

"The Soviets are a new state apparatus which, in the first place, provides an armed force of workers and peasants; and this force is not divorced from the people, as was the old standing army, but is v…"

"A good communicator affects our physiology. The power of voice can entrance us – even induce or remove pain."

"In some respects, cities are bottom-up processes, but they are also top-down initiatives – and elites soon develop. Religion is older than the city, but the elites quickly build temples and turn thems…"

"Rhetoric is a dangerous art. It is the manipulation of the difference, one might say the distance, between truth and image And in our times, that distance has become the means by which power is exerci…"

"Again, when Allaudin Khalji sacked Deogiri, hundreds of Sufis betook themselves to the South and established monasteries, to finance which fat sums were extracted from the local chiefs. Hajji Sayyid a…"

"Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity."

"Harry Dresden: Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway. You'd never see me trying to nab Saint Nick in a magic circle even if I did. I don't thi…"

"This book is written in the conviction that economics is a powerful tool for analyzing a vast range of legal questions but that most lawyers and law students-even very bright ones-have difficulty conn…"

"The chief function of the disciplinary power is to 'train', rather than to select and to levy; or, no doubt, to train in order to levy and select all the more. It does not link forces together in orde…"

"Atoms were originally proposed as an idea. Although their presence was proved by various means, people did not think that they could see them directly. This was so until recently. We are now able to d…"

"As dogs, cats, horses, and probably all the higher animals, even birds, as is stated on good authority, have vivid dreams, and this is shewn by their movements and voice, we must admit that they posse…"

"A permanent alteration of form limits the strength of materials with regard to practical purposes, almost as much as fracture; since, in general, the force which is capable of producing this effect is…"

"I was reading about and looking at Mantegna . I can sense how good he is for me. His enormous plasticity - it has such powerful substance. That is just what is lacking in my things. I could do somethi…"

"In 1933 a group of sincere and ardent collectivists seized control of the Democratic Party, used it as a means of grasping Federal power, and enthusiastically, from motives which many of them regard a…"

"A Dialogue between two Infants in the womb concerning the state of this world, might handsomely illustrate our ignorance of the next, whereof methinks we yet discourse in Plato's Den, and are but Embr…"

"While the Declaration was directed against an excess of authority, the Constitution was directed against anarchy."

"Collective security had a fine sound, but it was still little more than a word; it would still be the United States, and the United States alone, that held the far frontier. No one else had the will o…"

"Ignorance makes us reject what is beneficial; and when it becomes brazen it strengthens the hold of evil."

"External sanctions against the regime do not suffice. You have to bring into your calculation … an element of pressure from within... And the only way do that is by strengthening the hand of the peopl…"