- Vladimir Ilich Lenin
(04/22/1870 – 01/21/1924)
Russian political leader
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"If a faithful account was rendered of Man's ideas upon Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowledge, that for the most part the word 'gods' has been used to express the concealed, remote, unknown causes of the effects he witnessed; that he applies this term when the spring of the natural, the source of known causes, ceases to be visible: as soon as he loses the thread of these causes, or as soon as his mind can no longer follow the chain, he solves the difficulty, terminates his research, by ascribing it to his gods.... When, therefore, he ascribes to his gods the production of some phenomenon ... does he, in fact, do any thing more than substitute for the darkness of his own mind, a sound to which he has been accustomed to listen with reverential awe?"
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"Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost."
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"Discretion is not the better part of biography."
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"A literary movement consists of five or six
people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially."
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"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
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"The jawbone of an ass! Never! This is a DeMille picture and we've got to use the WHOLE ass!"
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"I can whistle through my fingers, bulldog a steer, light a fire with two sticks, shoot a pistol with fair accuracy, set type, and teach school..."
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| "I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around." |  |
| "They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties." |  |
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