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Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
— Thornton Wilder
Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Whereas land reform was the first act of the Bolsheviks, it was the last act of the Whites: that, in a peasant country, says it all.
— Orlando Figes
Progress is discovering what you can do without.
— Marty Rubin
Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.
— Mark Twain
I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.
— Erik Spiekermann
Eat Meat and your a beast
— Allen Ginsberg
The word 'soviet' means 'council' in Russian (there was nothing particularly Communist about it until after 1917).
— Orlando Figes
For the Romanov regime fell under the weight of its own internal contradictions. It was not overthrown.
— Orlando Figes
Valley of the Shadow of Death (1855)
— Orlando Figes
It was not Marxism that made Lenin a revolutionary but Lenin who made Marxism revolutionary.
— Orlando Figes
Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.
— L.M. Montgomery
Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.
— Simone Weil
Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.
— Orlando Figes
Anger is almost always an emotion for people who wish to control others while simultaneously failing to control themselves.
— Daniel Pearce
