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“The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.”

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Simon Schama is a renowned art historian known for his engaging writing style and unique insights into the history of art. His works cover a wide range of periods from the Renaissance to modern art, and are highly appreciated by readers. more

“Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism, and those who believe in a planned socialism uncontaminated by private profit-seeking. Both are bankrupt. The future, like the present and the past, belongs to mixed economies in which public and private are braided together in one way or another. But how? That is the problem for everybody today, but especially for people on the left.”

People Way Believe Problem Today Together Past Faces Left Economy Amount Pure Capitalism International Profit Seeking Socialism One Way Anarchism Bourgeois Impotence Mixed Economy

Author:Eric Hobsbawm

“The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.”

Has Beens Decision Century Cruelty Routine Justified

Author:Eric Hobsbawm

“There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.”

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Author:Eric Hobsbawm

“Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.”

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Book:Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991

Source: Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991

“It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.”

Seems Groups Patriotism Outcast American Patriotism

Author:Eric Hobsbawm

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