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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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Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is…
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope…
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can…
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A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted…
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EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
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One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and…
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