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Fritz Haber's methods of fixing nitrogen and killing men would have worked no matter who devised them, but his work on chlorine gas may have caused his first wife and his daughter to take their own lives 30 years apart, the latter after devoting herself to finding an antidote
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the reason that Durant has influenced me beyond any other author is in the way he showed the history of peoples and of ideas is the history of People great and small Voltaire and Louis XIV pressed themselves across their ages not just by arms or pen but raw force of personality
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America would not exist without the towering example of Washington's public virtue. This is not an "idea" in the dry analytic sense but it is nevertheless an incorporeal Spirit that animates men and shapes their hearts. I reject any notion of philosophy that dismisses examplars
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so yes, please let us live our lives together here in one another's society as epicurus would have it, not just as interlocutors but as friends.
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