S.A. Smith

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[Wikipedia] Stephen Anthony Smith, FBA, FRHistS is a British historian and academic. Since 2012, he has been professor of history at the University of Oxford and a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Smith was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1995, and a Fellow of the Britis

Quotes by S.A. Smith

“learning to read awoke a touching thirst for knowledge. ‘Send me a list of books published on comets, stars, water, the earth,…

S.A. Smith

Astronomy

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“Of you capitalists, weeping your crocodile tears, we demand that you stop crying about devastation that you yourselves have created. Your cards…

S.A. Smith

Stop crying

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“For virtually all the socialist revolutions of the twentieth century, it was not a crisis of the capitalist system, but imperialist war…

S.A. Smith

History-politics

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“I thought who really is my enemy: the Germans or the company commander? I still couldn’t see the Germans, but here in…

S.A. Smith

Business

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“The government hoped that it could carry out modernization whilst maintaining tight control over society. Yet the effect of industrialization, urbanization, internal…

S.A. Smith

Politics

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