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“We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.”
Source : 1939 After an early experiment at Columbia University which proved the possibility of splitting the atom. Quoted in James B Simpson Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988).
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“Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a socialist state, but of a special kind, as the world has never seen it before! The Titoites even boast that their state has nothing in common with the first socialist state which emerged from the socialist October Revolution and which was founded by Lenin and Stalin on the basis of the scientific theory of Marx and Engels.”
Source : "Yugoslav "Self-Administration" - Capitalist Theory and Practice". "Directions of the Development of the Political System of Socialist Self-Administration", Institute of Marxist-Leninist studies of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania, Tirana, 1978.
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“Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily, leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to society... He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention”
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“I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy.”
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“Take your work seriously, but never yourself.”
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“They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.”
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“To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.”
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“In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very center of your being, there is a fixed element, and that of a kind or degree essentially sovereign. A standard is set up in your very thought, by which a great part of your questions are determined, and about which your otherwise random thoughts may settle into order and law.”
