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A Stalin Functionary Admitted, Innocent People Were Arrested: Naturally - Otherwise No One Would Be Frightened. If People Were Arrested Only For Specific Misdemeanours, All The Others Would Feel Safe And So Become Ripe For Treason.

If We Want Foxes, To Observe And Delight In, We Must Have Hunting.

The Study Of History Is A Powerful Antidote To Contemporary Arrogance. It Is Humbling To Discover How Many Of Our Glib Assumptions, Which Seem To Us Novel And Plausible, Have Been Tested Before, Not Once But Many Times And In Innumerable Guises; And Discovered To Be, At Great Human Cost, Wholly False.

It Is One Of The Many Ironies Of This Period That, At A Time When The Intelligentsia Were Excoriating Mellon For Tax-evasion, And Contrasting The Smooth-running Soviet Planned Economy With The Breakdown In America, He Was Secretly Exploiting The Frantic Necessities Of The Soviet Leaders To Form The Basis Of One Of America's Most Splendid Public Collections

Conservation Of Energy. Never Stand Up When You Can Sit Down, And Never Sit Down When You Can Lie Down.