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The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those f...

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Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our prede...

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Charles MackayExtraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

The story of the herd of seals. Hundreds of them on a beach; among them the hunter killing one after...

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Erich Maria RemarqueArch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

In the social production which men carry on they enter into definite relations that are indispensabl...

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Karl MarxPreface and Introduction to a Contribution to the Critque of Political Economy

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars--all over Europe, all over the world. "S...

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I am old enough now to have all the memories of my people locked within my head. I remember things t...

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Man is the question he asks about himself, before any question has been formulated. It is, therefore...

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Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down—or up, I suppose—replacing ot...

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