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“Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.”

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Irving Layton was a renowned Canadian poet, born on March 12, 1912, and passed away on January 4, 2006. His poetry is known for its unique style and profound insight into social realities. more

“Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be presented and expounded as an immediate expression of the structure, must be contested in theory as primitive infantilism, and combated in practice with the authentic testimony of Marx, the author of concrete political and historical works.”

Political Practice Economy Expression Theory Essentials Claims Structure Historical Ideology Materialism Concrete Primitive Testimony Fluctuation

Author:Antonio Gramsci

“Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.”

Long War Ends Fighting Struggle Sacrifice Independent Painful Resistance Vietnam Vietnam War

Author:Ho Chi Minh

“All existing things upon this earth, which have knowledge of their own existence, possess, some in one degree and some in another, the power of thought, accompanied by perception, which is the awakening of thought by the effects of external objects upon the senses.”

Earth Existence Effects Objects Degrees Perception Awakening Senses Power Of Thought

Book:Formal Logic

Source: Formal Logic

“I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you.”

Said Disagree

Author:Augustus De Morgan

“We cannot know what John of Leyden felt Under the Bishop 's tongs - we can only Walk in temperate London, our educated city, Wishing to cry as freely as they did who died In the Age of Faith. We have our loneliness And our regret with which to build an eschatology.”

Knows Age Wish Felt Walks Cities Loneliness Cry Regret Died London Educated Bishops Eschatology

Book:A Porter Selected: Poems, 1959-1989

Source: A Porter Selected: Poems, 1959-1989

“In the New World, happiness is enforced.”

World New World

Book:A Porter Selected: Poems, 1959-1989

Source: A Porter Selected: Poems, 1959-1989

“Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.”

World Dies Fate Late Too Late Redeemer God Life

Book:The chair of Babel

Source: The chair of Babel

“Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.”

Gold Library Realms Public Library Westminster

Book:The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems

Source: The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems

“A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.”

Believe Breathing

Book:The last of England

Source: The last of England

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