"When you chop wood, splinters fly..." - Quote by Joseph Stalin
When you chop wood, splinters fly
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“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how.”
“One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.”
“We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don't indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.”
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“This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.”
“Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are.”
“Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.”
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“If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!”
“Your journey begins with a choice to get up, step out, and live fully”
“Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.”