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There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

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Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

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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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Leonard Woolf

Leonard Woolf

Born: November 25, 1880
Died: August 14, 1969 (aged 88)
Bio: Leonard Sidney Woolf was an English political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant, and husband of author Virginia Woolf.
Known for:
  1. The Village in the Jungle (1913)
  2. The journey not the arrival matters (1969)
  3. WISE VIRGINS, THE (1914)
  4. Beginning again (1964)
  5. A Tale Told by Moonlight

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