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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’

Leon Trotsky

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Age Expectation Man Old
City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.
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Age Expression Fantasy Modern Ourselves Success Triumph
Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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Compare Finding Lying Truth
Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.
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Accomplishment Act Explanation Forget Man Name Revolution
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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Discussion Greatness Mistake Time
In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.
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Banishment Essence Leadership Name
The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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Force History Man Motive
The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.
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Contradiction Permanent Recognition Revolution Theory
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Ideas Mindset Secure
Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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Abuse Privilege Right Stupidity
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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Absolute Circumstance Peace Rule War
The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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History Powerful Revenge Secretary
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Run Togetherness Wolf
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Master Technique
The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A ‘neutral’ position is tantamount to support of imperialism.
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Colonial Imperialism Struggle Support War
Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
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Beautiful Full Future Generation Life Oppression Violence

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