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According to the book, "They Never Said It", p. 64, (https://www.amazon.com/They-Never-Said-Misleading-Attributions/dp/0195064690) there is no evidence Lenin(or Stalin/Putin/Mao/Xi) has ever said this. [He] was supposed to have made his observation to one of his close associates, Grigori Zinoviev, not long after a meeting of the Politburo in the early 1920s, but there is no evidence that he ever did. Experts on the Soviet Union reject the rope quote as spurious

I have heard it is a pithy summing up of this quote from Lenin:

"They [the capitalists] will furnish credits which will serve us for the support of the Communist Party in their countries and, by supplying us materials and technical equipment which we lack, will restore our military industry necessary for our future attacks against our suppliers. To put it in other words, they will work on the preparation of their own suicide."

The quote (which I cannot authenticate) is claimed to have been written in a private letter not published until his collective works were published in a 45 volume edition in 1961.

Copied from another thread.

But some googling shows that this repeats itself amongst rightwing groups targeting any communist leader.

Not that I dont agree with the phrase

How about "Squib Kick it to a Fat Guy" and 699 more memorable quotes from the playbook of Coach Mike Leach.

Definitely not as 'deep' of a read as some of the others, but this stays true to my mantra that Mike Leach is the answer to most questions.

Not sure if this ie relevant or not, but the latest book about Mike Leach is called Squib Kick it to a Fat Guy.

note: mods, I tried to make sure that was the right link - with the amazon referral. I'll edit it if I need to.

Another favorite of mine for why he decided to go for an onside kick against Texas:

>The plan was to squib-kick it to a fat guy. Of course, the fat guys at Texas are nimble and they have good hands.

It also inspired the title for a book of Mike Leach quotes.

"You dirty rat." James Cagney never said it.

"Beam me up Scotty." Shatner never said this in the original Star Trek series. It wasn't until ST 4 that he said it.

I have this book. for those interested.

u/ I saw a book entitled The Wit and Wisdom of Nigel Farage for sale in a bookshop. It was entirely blank.

It's a real thing: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wisdom-Nigel-Farage-Blank-book/dp/0091960096

That, I guess, is how you do it.

Quite literally this

A few good primers:

• The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks
• The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: Alphabetical Collection
• The Wisdom of the Desert (T. Merton)
• The Way of the Heart (H. Nouwen)

There is also a bio of St. Anthony that I would recommend, but it's titles escapes me at the moment.

Hmm. Look into Codependents Anonymous meetings and CoDA's "big blue book." Go to a few different meetings yourself to get a sense of which ones might be best for dad if he will go with you to them.

He might also respond to a beginner level book like Melody Beattie's famed Codependent No More, but only if he is pretty solidly at the third stage.

That's not promoting a gay agenda, this is how you promote a gay agenda.

You are absolutely right! I actually found the book you are referring to: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wisdom-Nigel-Farage-Blank-book/dp/0091960096/ref=mp_s_a_1_11?dchild=1&keywords=nigel+farage&qid=1606216715&sprefix=nigel+fa&sr=8-11

He did have quite the way with words--or they had their way with him--or something.

Bushisms

Uh, well, CoDA has its <em>own</em> &quot;big book&quot; for 25 years.

Suggestion for further reading: the chapter on humility from <em>The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks (Penguin Classics)</em>. You will find the other themes addressed there as well.

This thread is going to pile up with people trying to convince you that their projection of meaning is somehow profound, or people reaching for some kind of loophole/argument to preserve the Sacred Meaning of Life. I am not one of them, OP.

Welcome to the 1st world desert, friend. Comfortable life, good friends, torrid romance, hobbies, pets, music. We're hanging out at the Sizzler at the edge of the universe. Any trivial thing we want to distract ourselves from the Terror is ours to devour. All of the disposable income that life as STEMfuck Sperglords grants, all for nothing. All we can do is ride the snake. I would recommend The Trouble with Being Born by E. M. Cioran, a delightful collection of nihilistic psalms and meditations.

<3 u bb, enjoy this unwinding into the void.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Trouble-Being-Born-Cioran/dp/1611457408

> presumably you didn't read the thread to see what the dispute was about, and neither did you read my comment with enough attention to find out what it was actually saying, but just latched on to the first out of context, undigested phrase your gut rebelled against.

Yeah. My purpose was to find an error in something written by a PHD, not to criticize your comment. Ordinarily I'd have just given it a more charitable interpretation and the problem would go away, but if I did that this time, I'd have to spend more time looking for a worse error and I was too lazy to do that. Finding minor nits to pick is always easy. Your comment was actually pretty good and my criticism was petty, if that makes you feel any better. My real point stands, however. PHDs and other experts make errors a lot. Here's an encyclopedia of errors made by experts that I recommend to you. It's a fun, easy read and hopefully after you read it ( if you do ), you will be more skeptical of experts. Otherwise, good luck to you.