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“I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.”

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Edward Teller was a renowned physicist known for his contributions to nuclear physics. He played a crucial role in the Manhattan Project and is known as the 'father of the hydrogen bomb' for his work on the development of the hydrogen bomb. more

“For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to misjudge the present, because only the study of historical development permits the weighing and evaluation of the interrelationships among the components of the present-day society.”

Said Study Minutes Development Historical Yesterday Permit Components Present Day Evaluation Weighing Yesterday Is History

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.”

World Firsts Humans Heart Country Earth Responsibility Class Crime Adventure Bears Civilization Discovery Destruction Belonging Our World New World Continents Being Human Dwellers

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.”

Ifs Ends Body Hate House Gone Stage I Hate Mirrors Anorexia Shorts Self Hatred Bras Self Hate

Author:Fiona Apple

“The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.”

“Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.”

Humans Stills Ideas Past Race Progress Failing Danger Achievement Riches Human Race Accomplished Immense Enthusiastic Partisans Devalue

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing”

World Writing Facts Seems Society Appearance Phenomenon Linked

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

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