Biography Quote by John Peter Nettl

“She had privacy, and the privilege of walking up and down the same battlements as the sentries.” quote by John Peter Nettl — Download Open image

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“If they had kept quiet, and lain low for a time, things might have fizzled out as another unreal Wortstreist, blown up by a few ambitious authors of the party press. As it was, they decided to counter-attack the noisy, irrepressible outsiders--foreigners, to boot--and so forced a reluctant leadership to turn its full, slow, wrath against them; and against Bernstein…

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“I am determined to bring even more severity, clarity, and reserve into my life (she wrote in 1908).”

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“Among those who pledged their support to the Central Committee was Feliks Dzierzynski. It was only after the arrest of this fanatic personality and…

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“Passion is curiously exclusive and the need for it irresistible, while promiscuity is passionless--a mere collector's obsession.”

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“Clarity is blinding and can be the most destructive element of all in human relations.”

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