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His (Karl Marx) contribution to thought was his conception of society as something fluid, in a state of perpetual change and becoming, and his adumbration of a law governing this process.
Adumbration - the act of providing a vague outline, faint sketch, or shadowy foreshadowing of something without giving the full details. AI" — Jun 18, 2026 02:17AM
His (Karl Marx) contribution to thought was his conception of society as something fluid, in a state of perpetual change and becoming, and his adumbration of a law governing this process.
Adumbration - the act of providing a vague outline, faint sketch, or shadowy foreshadowing of something without giving the full details. AI" — Jun 18, 2026 02:17AM
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The bloke who built Mehmet’s enormous cannon with which in 1453 he breached the walls of Constantinople bringing to an end more than 1,100 years of Christian civilisation..
..was a Hungarian named Orbán." — Apr 08, 2026 01:50PM
"So let me get this straight.
The bloke who built Mehmet’s enormous cannon with which in 1453 he breached the walls of Constantinople bringing to an end more than 1,100 years of Christian civilisation..
..was a Hungarian named Orbán." — Apr 08, 2026 01:50PM
“I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena”
― My Life in France
― My Life in France
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― The Uncommon Reader
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