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„Under Stalin, we were not buying wheat from the West, we were selling it on international markets. We didn’t go around the world asking for humanitarian aid and loans, we were granting them. That is the paradox.“

— Valentin Varennikov Soviet general and russian politician 1923 - 2009

As quoted in 1995, "Valentin I. Varennikov, Retired Soviet General Who Tried to Topple Gorbachev, Dies at 85" in The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/world/europe/08varennikov.html (8 May 2009)

„The reason for the collapse of the USSR was only the betrayal of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, who were led by the United States. The American administration has always, all the years, strived to destroy the USSR, and now Russia, and take advantage of our wealth.“

— Valentin Varennikov Soviet general and russian politician 1923 - 2009

"Горбачев сказал нам: "Действуйте, как хотите" " https://ytro.news/articles/2007/08/20/672987.shtml

Wealth, Betrayal

„Billy, in one of his nice new sashes,
Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes;
Now, although the room grows chilly,
I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy.“

— Harry Graham British writer 1874 - 1936

Tender-Heartedness
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899)

„When Grandmamma fell off the boat,
And couldn’t swim, and wouldn’t float,
Maria just sat by and smiled -
I almost could have slapped the child!“

— Harry Graham British writer 1874 - 1936

Indifference
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899)

„Weep not for little Leonie,
Abducted by a French Marquis!
Though loss of honour was a wrench,
Just think how it's improved her French.“

— Harry Graham British writer 1874 - 1936

Compensation
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899)

„O'er the rugged mountain's brow
Clara threw the twins she nursed,
And remarked, "I wonder now
Which will reach the bottom first?"“

— Harry Graham British writer 1874 - 1936

Calculating Clara
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899)

„That morning, when my wife eloped
With James, our chauffeur, how I moped!
What tragedies in life there are!
I'm dashed if I can start the car.“

— Harry Graham British writer 1874 - 1936

Tragedy
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899)

„Uncle, whose inventive brains
kept evolving aeroplanes,
fell from an enormous height
upon my garden lawn last night.
Flying is a fatal sport,
uncle wrecked the tennis court.“

— Harry Graham British writer 1874 - 1936

Uncle
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899)

Flying, Night, Sport

„The Industrial Revolution was merely the beginning of a revolution as extreme and radical as ever inflamed the minds of sectarians, but the new creed was utterly materialistic and believed that all human problems could be resolved given an unlimited amount of material commodities.“

— Karl Polanyi, book The Great Transformation

Source: The Great Transformation (1944), Ch. 3 : "Habitation versus Improvement"

„Pauperism had become a portent. But its meaning was still anybody's guess.“

— Karl Polanyi, book The Great Transformation

Source: The Great Transformation (1944), Ch. 9 : Pauperism and Utopia

„What we call land is an element of nature inextricably interwoven with man’s institutions. To isolate it and form a market for it was perhaps the weirdest of all the undertakings of our ancestors.“

— Karl Polanyi, book The Great Transformation

Source: The Great Transformation (1944), Ch. 15 : Market and Nature

„The ascendant activity of the intellect, unaccompanied by a deep moral experience, must issue sooner or later in the shipwreck of the entire personality.“

— Robert Charles (scholar) Biblical scholar, theologian 1855 - 1931

Sermons Preached in Westminster Abbey
1917
Macmillan, London
https://archive.org/details/sermonspreached00charuoft/page/4

„I'm one of the worst drivers I have ever seen, and I just want you all to know that, if you're ever on the highway behind me, I hear you honking, and I also don't want me to be doing what I'm doing.“

— John Mulaney American actor and comedian 1982

New in Town (2012)

„It is so much easier not to do things than to do them that you would do anything is totally remarkable.“

— John Mulaney American actor and comedian 1982

New in Town (2012)

„In terms of like, instant relief, canceling plans is like heroin.“

— John Mulaney American actor and comedian 1982

New in Town (2012)

„A "hero" is any man who does his job. You a lot of times see headlines that are like, "hero tutor teaches after school", and you're like, yeah.“

— John Mulaney American actor and comedian 1982

New in Town (2012)

„I don't want special protection for gays or transgender. I'm saying there should be protections for all dissident behavior and speech. Dissidents of every kind.“

— Camille Paglia American writer 1947

In an interview about the book. " Camille Paglia on her controversial feminism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69rgLvitaYM" (at 10m35s), CBC News: The National on YouTube, 7 May 2017.
Free Women, Free Men (2017)

„First of all, this prince is an idiot, and, secondly, he is a fool--knows nothing of the world, and has no place in it.“

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, book The Idiot

The Idiot, Part IV., Chapter V.
General, The Idiot (1868–9)

„It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.“

— C.G. Jung Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology 1875 - 1961

Attributed but thus far unverified

„A young man is to crime what a penny is to the X.“

— Honoré de Balzac, book The Atheist's Mass

The Atheist's Mass (1836)
Original: (fr) Un jeune homme est au crime ce qu'une pièce de cent sous est au X.

„Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Etiam egestas wisi a erat. Morbi imperdiet, mauris ac auctor dictum.“

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