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Italian politician, Writer and Author 1469–1527Related quotes
“Without Stalin's politics, we would never have achieved anything, we would all have died.”
Lazar Kaganovich (1893–1991) Soviet politician
Interview (5 October 1990) as quoted in La Repubblica https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1990/10/05/parla-kaganovich-non-siamo-dei-mostri.html
Mark Manson (1984) American writer and blogger
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 3, “You Are Not Special” (p. 61)
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles
“Oh, but you know, you do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
TV Interview for ITV (30 November 1984) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105803 <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister
“I don't think that anything that's really creative can be done without danger and risk.”
Julie Taymor (1952) American film and theatre director
60 Minutes interview (2010)
Context: I love it when people say "What a horrible, lousy idea." I think that's great … I hate the comfort zone … I don't think that anything that's really creative can be done without danger and risk.
“It is the great challenge of our time: How to achieve justice, with struggle, but without war.”
Howard Zinn (1922–2010) author and historian
Declarations of Independence: Cross-examining American Ideology (HarperCollins, 1990), Ch. 5, p. 105
