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“Religion is lived by people who are afraid of hell. Spirituality is lived by people who have been through hell.”
― Breathing Underwater
― Breathing Underwater
“How we decide to respond to our fears, that is the person we become. I decided to be funny.”
― Will
― Will
“In 1999, The Black Book of Communism endeavored to attempt the impossible task of tabulating a Marxist-Leninist death toll in the twentieth century. It came up with a figure approaching 100 million. Here is the breakdown:
*USSR: 20 million deaths
*China: 65 million deaths
*Vietnam: 1 million deaths
*North Korea: 2 million deaths
*Cambodia: 2 million deaths
*Eastern Europe: 1 million deaths
*Latin America: 150,000 deaths
*Africa: 1.7 million deaths
*Afghanistan: 1.5 million deaths
*The international communist movement and
Communist parties not in power:
about 10,000 deaths”
― The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration
*USSR: 20 million deaths
*China: 65 million deaths
*Vietnam: 1 million deaths
*North Korea: 2 million deaths
*Cambodia: 2 million deaths
*Eastern Europe: 1 million deaths
*Latin America: 150,000 deaths
*Africa: 1.7 million deaths
*Afghanistan: 1.5 million deaths
*The international communist movement and
Communist parties not in power:
about 10,000 deaths”
― The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration
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― Book Lovers
― Book Lovers
“Start sleeping with books and one day you will wake up wisdom”
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