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Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

by Stephen Kotkin

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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

by Edward S. Herman

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Vivek’s Quotes

“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
― Graham Greene

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“I can stand on my own feet; I don't need any man's mahogany desk to prop me up”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

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“You're beginning to get the idea, Clark. We could have changed the world…now…look at us…I've become a political liability…and…you…you're a joke. I want you to remember, Clark…in all the years to come…in your most private moments…I want you to remember…my hand…at your throat…I want…you to remember…the one man who beat you.”
― Frank Miller, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

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“When it came down to it, though, you had to remember all those assholes cutting you off in traffic and walking the streets and shouting in bars and turning their music up too loud and mugging you and raping you and selling you lemon cars-all those assholes were just children who'd aged. No miracle. Nothing sacred in that.”
― Dennis Lehane, Mystic River

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“I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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