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“What we designate modernity was not something natural or automatic. It involved a set of difficult-to-attain attributes—mass production, mass culture, mass politics—that the greatest powers mastered. Those states, in turn, forced other countries to attain modernity as well, or suffer the consequences, including defeat in war and possible colonial conquest.”
― Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
― Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
“Read a verse of Homer and you can walk the walls of Troy alongside Hector; fall into a paragraph by Fitzgerald and your Now entangles with Gatsby’s Now; open a 1953 book by Ray Bradbury and go hunting T. rexes. Ursula Le Guin said: “Story is our only boat for sailing on the river of time,” and she’s right, of course. The shelves of every library in the world brim with time machines. Step into one, and off you go.”
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“Justice is not natural among people, but the struggle for justice is the most noble act in society. Because justice may not be possible, but as it’s the way toward the desired society for each one to live in, that’s why its struggle is noble and regard as the highest act.”
― GOVERNMENT Servant, Not Master
― GOVERNMENT Servant, Not Master
“The children start school now in August. They say it has to do with air-conditioning, but I know sadism when I see it.”
― My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South
― My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South
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