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Like most teams, this one had a captain, Joseph Stalin, a figure of great authority over the others, who might also be described as a playing coach. His prerogatives in practice, though this was nowhere written down, included the
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“A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving... There can be no love without justice.”
― Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
― Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
― Candide
― Candide
“But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.”
― Candide
― Candide
“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Candide, or, Optimism
― Candide, or, Optimism
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