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“W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin. He began publication of an expensive magazine and proclaimed 'a thousand secret agents in a thousand communities.'”

“It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.”

Men Two Matter Turns Left Party Issues Subjects Effects Poet Aspect Fortune Disappointment Various Versions Consideration Plumber

Author:Thomas Frank

“I couldn't think of anything worse than going to a fancy dress party. So, if somebody invited me to one, I'd go as the Invisible Man and not turn up.”

Ifs Thinking Men Turns Party Dresses Invisible Fancy Invited

Author:David Morrissey

“I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.”

Turns Party Dinner Cooks Guests Impressed Turn-on Ovens Appreciative Dinner Party

Author:Lucy Punch

“When I turn up at a trendy party, all the youngsters look like they could be my illegitimate love children.”

Looks Children Turns Party Youngsters Children Love Trendy

Author:Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

“Scientists are rarely to be counted among the fun people. Awkward at parties, shy with strangers, deficient in irony - they have had no choice but to turn their attention to the close study of everyday objects.”

People Science Turns Choices Fun Party Attention Study Objects Scientist Everyday Stranger Irony Shy Awkward Everyday Objects

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; and when constant companionship ceases to suit the convenience of both parties, the chances are that it will be dropped on the first favourable opportunity.”

Source: Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)

“It is a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and invite them back. Often they retaliate by inviting you again, and you must then extend another invitation. Back and forth you go, like Ping-Pong balls, and what you end up with is called social life.”

People Giving Ends Facts Turns Social Party Balls Dinner Invites Invitations Back And Forth Social Life Facts Of Life You Again Inviting Dinner Party Ping Ping Pong

Author:Laurie Colwin

“The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness to a test on the part of the masses, thus preserving their right to an inactive hauteur which makes no difference to anybody. A revolutionary party can turn its back to a parliament only if it has set itself the immediate task of overthrowing the existing regime.”

Ifs Desire Turns Differences Party Mass Weakness Tasks Tests Institutions Revolutionary Regimes Submit Parliament Anarchist Parliamentary Boycott

Book:History of the Russian Revolution

Source: History of the Russian Revolution