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"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground."

"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"

"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"

"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."

"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."

"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."

"Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses."
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"Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation."

"In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism."

"The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage."

"My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas."

"The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people."

"It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more."

"In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital."

"One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership."

"The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation."

"As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study."
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