#tory

Sometimes - history needs a push. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#needs #push #sometimes

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#governed #impossible #laws #less #more

History is more interesting than politics. ↗

— Lennart Meri

#interesting #more #politics #than

The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look. ↗

— John Vinocur

#any #armies #bravery #disappears #emotions

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#i #i am #optimism #pessimism #story

I'm just a story teller. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#just #story #teller

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#cooks #more #process #story #writing

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#goes #happened #history #ira #over

I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result. ↗

— Carl Levin

#any #ask #bill #collins #could

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. ↗

— Steven Levy

#computers #debugging #history #never #period