"The criterion of "progress" between two cultures or two eras consists of a greater capacity to kill."

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“An individual declares himself a member of some group or other with the goal of demanding in its name what he is ashamed to claim in his own name.”

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“The individual shrinks in proportion as the state grows.”

“To be intelligent without ideas is the privilege of the artist.”

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"In a nutshell, the idea of Juche means that the masters of the revolution and the work of construction are the masses of the people and that they are also the motive force of the revolution and the wo…"

— Kim Il-sung

Politics1912–1994

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"e may fancy that we see or feel what we in reality infer. Newton saw the truth of many propositions of geometry without reading the demonstrations, but not, we may be sure, without their flashing thro…"

— John Stuart Mill

Philosophy1806–1873

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"He saw that their distinctive virtue lay in their finitude, their minute particularity, their tortured balance between dullness and lucidity; and that to save them from these would be to annihilate th…"

— Olaf Stapledon

Literature1886–1950

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"The key books about object-oriented graphical modeling languages appeared between 1988 and 1992. Leading figures included Grady Booch ; Peter Coad , ; Ivar Jacobson ; Jim Odell ; Jim Rumbaugh , ; Sall…"

— Martin Fowler

Science1963

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