Russian Figure Skating

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“In certain respects, particularly economically, National- Socialism is nothing but bolshevism. These two are hostile brothers of whom the younger has learned everything from the older, the Russian excepting only morality.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

“Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1985)

“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)