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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#defect #dull #grave #perfection

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects. ↗

— Karl Marx

#bourgeoisie #great #hills #insipid #intellects

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. ↗

— Karl Marx

#being #gregarious #human #human being #itself

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism. ↗

— Karl Marx

#europe #haunting #specter

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science. ↗

— Karl Marx

#into #itself #just #man #natural

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. ↗

— Karl Marx

#generalization #lack #material #revolution #revolutionary

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together. ↗

— Karl Marx

#application #competition #division #does #extend

When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested. ↗

— Richard Marx

#easy #find #get #i #interest

And to any new fans we made along the way, I say... welcome to our party. It's just starting to get going. ↗

— Richard Marx

#any #fans #get #going #i

It's nice to feel that you have a purpose. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#nice #purpose #you