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Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.


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TOM SHALES The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has ...
TOM WAITS The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is...
TOM PETERS Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student...
TOM MORRIS The original and very basic 'Law & Order' series has always seemed to me to be 100-perce...
TOM SHALES The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of yo...
TOM DOUGLAS The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you cou...
TOM ALLEN It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
TOM STOPPARD Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, ...
TOM MORELLO There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot ...
TOM FORD Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.
TOM SCHULMAN I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce.
TOM SIZEMORE Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about i...
TOM PETERS The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gum...
TOM HANKS