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At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.

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I am seeking to rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the 'obsolete' hand-loom weaver, the 'utopian' artisan, and even the deluded follower of Joanna Southcott, from the enormous condescension of posterity.

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This 'going into Europe' will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle-aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brussels hotel for a Group Grope.

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There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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E. P. Thompson

E. P. Thompson

Born: February 3, 1924
Died: August 28, 1993 (aged 69)
Bio: Edward Palmer Thompson, usually cited as E. P. Thompson, was a British historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner.
Known for:
  1. The Making of the English Working Class (1963)
  2. Poverty of theory, or An orrery of errors
  3. Whigs and hunters
  4. Customs in common
  5. Witness Against the Beast (1993)

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