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“The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.”

Source: Essay on Marxian Economics

“As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.”

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Book:Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair

Source: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.”

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Author:Joseph Goebbels

“Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.”

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Book:On History

Source: On History

“The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of physics has there been witnessed such a period of intense activity when discoveries of fundamental importance have followed one another with such bewildering rapidity.”

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Author:Ernest Rutherford

“There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of the universe.”

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Author:Frederick Soddy

“This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the universe to our eyes. In its own way, matter obeyed from the beginning that great law of biology to which we shall have to recur time and time again, the law of "complexification."”

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Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Indeed, I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his conception of religion, in his whole world outlook, are greater than the changes that occurred during the preceding four thousand years all put together.”

“History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.”

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Book:Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century: The Classic That Woke Up the Church

Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century: The Classic That Woke Up the Church