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For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

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The Communist vision is the vision of man without God. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#god #man #vision #without

Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#being #california #certainly #commitment #contemporary

My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#dimensions #distance #itself #largely #maintained

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#being #carry #conscience #duties #every

A day without laughter is a day wasted. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#laughter #wasted #without

It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy. ↗

— Geraldine Chaplin

#change #crazy #drives #hear #i

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name. ↗

— Geraldine Ferraro

#bad #call #doctors #economics #give

What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#communities #debate #differences #diversity #find

Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#around #celebrity #could #either #find