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We are, as I have said, one equation short.
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We are, as I have said, one equation short.
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. In short we dislike it, and we are beginning to despise it. But when we wonder what to put in its place, we are extremely perplexed.
I was immensely cheered and excited by the Russian news. It's the sole result of the war so far worth having. I see not the remotest chance, however, of any pro-Tsar counter-revolution...
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong, especially if one is promptly found out.
But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
With the utmost respect, I must, if asked for my opinion, tell you that I regard your account as rubbish.
The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists.
The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.