I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.
Arthur Koestler
Make notes !
Journey through the world and carefully attend to every matter, whether political or not, which appears remarkable to you. Note it for the information of yourself and others. In this way you will make an excellent record, from which you will learn much. Experience and observation are to be preferred to all other sources of information.
Christian Scriver
1629 - 1693