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82ccab0
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"One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Hardy and I were talking about Einstein. Hardy had met him several times, and I had recently returned from visiting him. Hardy was saying that in his lifetime there had only been two men in the world, in all the fields of human achievement, science, literature, politics, anything you like, who qualified for the Bradman class. For those not familiar with cricket, or with Hardy's personal idiom, I ought to mention that "the Bradman class" denoted the highest kind of excellence: it would include Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Newton, Archimedes, and maybe a dozen others. Well, said Hardy, there had only been two additions in his lifetime. One was Lenin and the other Einstein."
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archimedes
bradman-class
cambridge
count-lev-nikolayevich-tolstoy
einstein
g-h-hardy
godfrey-hardy
godfrey-harold-hardy
isaac-newton
lenin
leo-tolstoy
lev-nikolayevich-tolstoy
literature
newton
politics
science
shakespeare
tolstoy
vladimir-ilyich-lenin
vladimir-lenin
william-shakespeare
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C.P. Snow |
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82a629c
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"I think you are wise. You haven't got what it takes for this job. You are like Rosemary's father. He couldn't understand Lenin's dictum: 'Away with softness.'" I thought of Hercule Poirot's words. "I'm content," I said, "to be human...." We sat there in silence, each of use convinced that the other's point of view was wrong."
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disagreement
human
lenin
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Agatha Christie |
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93eb838
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There must be a connection between the lust for power and impotentia coeundi. I liked Marx, I was sure that he and his Jenny had made love merrily. You can feel it in the easy pace of his prose and in his humor. On the other hand, I remember remarking one day in the corridors of the university that if you screwed Krupskaya all the time, you'd end up writing a lousy book like Materialism and Empiriocriticism.
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lenin
umberto-eco
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Umberto Eco |
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8de9e5f
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It was not Marxism that made Lenin a revolutionary but Lenin who made Marxism revolutionary.
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lenin
marxism
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Orlando Figes |
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45b8dd8
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Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.
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danger
lenin
russian-revolution
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Orlando Figes |
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4f143d6
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Lenin's Personal life was extraordinarily dull. He dressed and lived like a middle-aged provincial clerk, with precisely fixed hours for meals, sleep, work and leisure. He liked everything to be neat and orderly.
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dull
lenin
marxism
provinvial-clerk
russian-revolution
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Orlando Figes |