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Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is…
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Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism,…
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The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could…
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There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the…
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Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.
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It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like…
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The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.
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It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was…
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This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging…
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Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
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Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.
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