Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
As quoted in Dmitri Volkogonov, Lenin: Life and Legacy (1994), p. 201.
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“I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.”
Act I, sc. i
The Inspector General (1836)
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Giovanni Morassutti (1980) Italian actor, theatre director and cultural entrepreneur.
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I’ve Got A Nietzsche Trigger Finger! (1986)
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Source: 'Minor White, A Living Remembrance', Dorothy Norman, in 'Aperture', 1984, p. 9.
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Karl Barth (1886–1968) Swiss Protestant theologian
On his Epistle to the Romans (1918; 1921).
"Witness to an Ancient Truth" (1962)