Then they are giving up, because this is perpetual revolution.
Didnāt Trotsky say that? If you admit your reactionary thoughts are wrong you may get away with only ten years in the gulag.
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Thereās more than one kind of revolution.
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You do know that the word āsatelliteā (from satelles, plural satellites) originally had nothing to do with astronomy? As far as I know the first use of the word in astronomical sense was when Pope was comparing Jupiter and its moons to the Roman gods, i.e.
And Joveās satellites are less than Jove
A satelles was a subsidiary ruler and by extension a subsidiary state - so using āSatellitesā for the buffer states of the USSR is perfectly correct.
Unfortunately illiteracy ruled when the word started to be used formally,so we got satellite rather than satelles.
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āThe secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, youāve got it made.ā
āGroucho Marx
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If both sides donāt like you, youāre probably in the right.
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If you fancy something a bit stronger, we can always nip along to the moon under water later.
Itās an interesting piece, and bears a contrast to his own earlier writings. In Down and Out in Paris and London, Thereās a section where he slips into that sort of territory himself, where heās describing the struggles of the Parisian poor, and their interaction with cheating shopkeepers,whose Jewishness is lingered upon in the telling.
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If what you can find in a pub is stronger than tea, the tea is being done wrong!
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Hereās T.S. Eliotās rejection letter for Animal Farm
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