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The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.

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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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James Joll

James Joll

Born: June 21, 1918
Died: July 12, 1994 (aged 76)
Bio: James Bysse Joll FBA was a British historian and university lecturer whose works included The Origins of the First World War and Europe Since 1870. He also wrote on the history of anarchism and socialism.
Known for:
  1. The origins of the First World War (1984)
  2. Europe Since 1870 (1973)
  3. The Anarchists (1964)
  4. The Second International, 1889-1914 (1955)
  5. Three intellectuals in politics (1960)

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