Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.


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Man is not made for defeat.
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I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the ani...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness excep...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder whil...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
We are gods with anuses.
ERNEST BECKER
By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
ERNEST RENAN
You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, cou...
ERNEST BEVIN
I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy to...
ERNEST BORGNINE
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
ERNEST GAINES
Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves.
ERNEST RENAN
When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the lice...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.
ERNEST RUTHERFORD
There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fill...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Don't just count your years, make your years count.
ERNEST MEYERS
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - What We Live By.
ERNEST DIMNET
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter...
ERNEST DIMNET
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by th...
ERNEST DIMNET
Man makes holy what he believes.
ERNEST RENAN
You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not ha...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it k...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the wri...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are ass...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelin...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Never confuse movement with action.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY