#his

Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century. ↗

— Palmiro Togliatti

#entire #given #his #joseph #name

On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#cabinet #completely #form #his #i

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now? ↗

— Ernst Toller

#ask #could #dead #death #earthly

History shows you don't know what the future brings. ↗

— Rick Wagoner

#future #history #know #shows #you

We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating. ↗

— Rick Wagoner

#always #blow #debating #game #start

Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#african #another #blind #both #deaf

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him. ↗

— Dan Totheroh

#better #course #devil #fixes #gets

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#animal #certain #conversation #ever #furniture

I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible. ↗

— Robert Towne

#bring #context #credible #difficult #else

Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play. ↗

— Pete Townshend

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