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"Regardless of its mobilization of the name Maoism, it was only a precursor of contemporary Maoism—its skeleton, its DNA—and was ultimately conditioned by the fossil remains of a Leninism that had reac…"

"Sixty years after Hitler's death, his war and its consequences are entering history. Postwar in Europe lasted a very long time, but it is finally coming to a close."

"I thought it's only been three days. Hard to tell without sunlight."

"“I had for many years been a devout believer in Shushi says Nakaye Toju , “when, by the mercy of Heaven, the collected works of Oyomei were brought for the first time to Japan. Had it not been for the…"

"The time has passed for argument. Nothing more need be said. For a long time it has been clear that colored persons must be senators."

"Mao is a strange man whose personality is like the Tao, sometimes In sometime Young; he has a soft-as-cotton outer layer, but at the same time has sharp needles hiding inside... I do not think he coul…"

"If a woman shared her body with me, why can I not speak of my experience?...It’s not me casting a judgment on someone, it’s something that has happened. You can rap about whatever the hell you wanna r…"

"Under a cabinet constitution at a sudden emergency this people can choose a ruler for the occasion. It is quite possible and even likely that he would not be ruler before the occasion. The great quali…"

"'Art' is a Renaissance invention which has been carried to a state of extreme refinement in the present day. This is the so-called 'abstract art'. The production of good works of art was achieved only…"

"A study of attorneys found that the attorneys whose pictures were judged independently to be the better-looking ones were able to earn about 12% more per year than the less good-looking ones. The bett…"

"Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary — or would not be fixity. What did I mean by that phrase? I probably had in mind the opposition between m…"

"A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass."

"It costs three to five times as much to remove a BTU of heat from a house in the summer as it does to add one BTU of heat in the winter."

"W.C. Fields: The Radio Years"

"I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. Such lucky g…"

"Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided s…"

"A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse."

"Your system was liable to periodical convulsions...business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation."

"I was trying to explain that this is actually a proper job but just feeling terribly ridiculous as real doctors and real patients were wheeled past," Gomez says, "There are moments when you think: wha…"

"White Democrats opposed Reconstruction not because it was a failure, but because it was working. Today almost all historians of Reconstruction hold that view."