Isaac Deutscher Quotes

#1. Simple yet succinct, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals exposes the idols of modernity and provides the biblical arsenal needed for their complete destruction. Trevin Wax provides medicine for the heart in this short, powerful study. Read it and be blessed.

Daniel L. Akin

#2. The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.

Keith Ellison

#3. Emptiness is the worlds greatest discovery

Sorin Cerin

#4. The works of John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, and Karl Marx had been forbidden. Students' libraries and clubs had been closed; and informers had been planted in the lecture halls. Entry fees had been raised fivefold to bar academic education to children of poor parents.

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#5. Tel Aviv, with its young Olim community, is the sexiest thing on the entire planet.

Ruth Westheimer

#6. I got to play Kim in Bye Bye Birdie, Sandy in Grease, and Maria in The Sound of Music. And it was so much fun for me, but the thing that I looked forward to the most was at the cast parties. After the shows they had karaoke machines set up and that's when I could sing country music.

Taylor Swift

#7. What kind of life am I setting up for her (her = daughters)? ... It's not just about making them, like, not be assholes, which is what I think any parent would do.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#8. The Lord knew I would someday be charged with the priesthood responsibility for hundreds and even thousands of Heavenly Father's children who were in desperate temporal need.

Henry B. Eyring

#9. It is necessary to distinguish the nationalism of the oppressing nations from the nationalism of the oppressed

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#10. I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.

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#11. I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music.

Smokey Robinson

#12. I still don't have all the answers, but I'm no longer afraid to confront the questions.

Pittacus Lore

#13. The local liberal press, much molested by the censorship, had its courageous and skilful writers such as VM Doroshevich, the master of that semi-literary and semi-journalistic essay at which Bronstein himself was one day to excel.

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#14. Wherever he went he left footprints so firm that nobody could later efface or blur them, not even he himself, when on rare occasions he was tempted to do so.

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#15. When 'The Washington Post' ran the first national story about FBI profiling in 1984, no one outside of law enforcement recognized the term.

Ronald Kessler

#16. In our imaginations we can go anywhere. Travel with me to Redwall in Mossflower country.

Brian Jacques

#17. Before the discovery of these [underwater] vents, all life on Earth, the key to life on Earth, was believed to be the sun and photosynthesis. But down there, there is no sun, there is no photosynthesis; it's chemosynthetic environment down there driving it, and it's all so ephemeral.

Mike DeGruy

#18. The idea of a revolution through the people was gradually replaced by that of a conspiracy to be planned and carried out by a small and determined minority from the intelligentsia.

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#19. Trees have roots, Jews have legs.

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#20. A librarian remembers the particular scent of glue and dust, and if we're so lucky - and I was - the smell of parchment, a quiet tanginess, softer than wood pulp or cotton rag. We would bury ourselves in books until flesh and paper became one and ink and blood at last ran together.

Erika Swyler

#21. Intimacy makes you feel unique. Intimacy makes you feel as though you have been singled out, that someone in the world believes you have special qualities that nobody else has.

Heather O'Neill

#22. For those of you who don't know who I am, I played Natalie on The Facts of Life.

Reno Collier

#23. The gentry's jurisdiction over the peasantry was restored. The universities were closed to the children of the lower classes; the radical literary periodicals were banned; the nation, including the intelligentsia, was to be forced back into mute submission. Revolutionary

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#24. The hunger for land: that great hunger which for more than half a century was to shake Russia and to throw her into a fever, body and mind.

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#25. But on 1 March 1881 the conspirators succeeded in assassinating the Tsar. To

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