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Paul Harteck (physical chemist): We might have succeeded if the highest authorities had said, “We are prepared to sacrifice everything.” Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (physicist): In our case even the scientists said it couldn’t be done. ...more
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“You have another think coming,” as Scout Finch would say.”
Mary McDonagh Murphy, Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of "To Kill a Mockingbird"

Amor Towles
“if a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.”
Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles
“...the Confederacy of the Humbled is a close-knit brotherhood whose members travel with no outward markings, but who know each other at a glance. For having fallen suddenly from grace, those in the Confederacy share a certain perspective. Knowing beauty, influence, fame, and privilege to be borrowed rather than bestowed, they are not easily impressed. They are not quick to envy or take offense. They certainly do not scour the papers in search of their own names. They remain committed to living among their peers, but they greet adulation with caution, ambition with sympathy, and condescension with an inward smile.”
Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“What the engineers had first seen in the October coup d'état was ruin. (And for three years there had been ruin and nothing else.) Beyond that, they had seen the loss of even the most elementary freedoms. (And these freedoms never returned.) How, then, could engineers not have wanted a democratic republic? How could engineers accept the dictatorship of the workers, the dictatorship of their subordinates in industry, so little skilled or trained and comprehending neither the physical nor the economic laws of production, but now occupying the top positions, from which they supervised the engineers? Why shouldn't the engineers have considered it more natural for the structure of society to be headed by those who could intelligently direct its activity?”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

158640 Australians Abroad Book Club — 11 members — last activity Nov 29, 2020 11:11AM
A book club for Aussies Abroad and anyone else who would enjoy some literature from Australia by Australian/NZ Authors. Book selection will be once a ...more
89231 Works of Thomas Hardy — 285 members — last activity 9 hours, 53 min ago
A group to discuss all the works of Thomas Hardy, from poems to novels and everything in between. Also, this is a place to discuss the life and times ...more
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