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There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.
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Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
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As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
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Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
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