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I mean, this was the second half of the twentieth century, for pity’s sake, and they still saw communism as the road to utopia.
Navarjun
Extreme of any ideology can get us into trouble. The problem with communism is that it’s probably the only one that was followed religiously to the extreme.
Nirbhai Singh
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Nirbhai Singh
Next time we talk, let's discuss this : "The problem with communism is it can only be extreme".
Navarjun
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Navarjun
Let’s talk soon then… 😊
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Jeannette Walls
“Every damn thing in the universe can be broken down into smaller things, even atoms, even protons, so theoretically speaking, I guess you had a winning case. A collection of things should be considered one thing. Unfortunately, theory don’t always carry the day.”
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

David Eagleman
“with the knowledge that you cannot appreciate the destination without knowing the starting point; you cannot revel in the simplicity unless you remember the alternatives.”
David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

David Eagleman
“we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.”
David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Gurcharan Das
“people do, in fact, act against their moral convictions and this is an unhappy fact about ourselves’.”
Gurcharan Das, The Difficulty of Being Good

Gurcharan Das
“The Mahabharata reminds us that it is natural and desirable for human beings to want happiness and pleasure as they seek to be good. Kama is one of the legitimate goals of human life. The Christian denial of physical pleasure, especially sexual pleasure, is happily absent from the epic and most ancient Indian texts. So is the ‘thou shalt not’ approach, which makes one feel guilty, and turns one off the moral project. The notion of dharma as it emerges from the Mahabharata is a plural one. Being plural makes greater demands on one’s reason, for human objectives sometimes conflict with each other, and this forces one to choose. The attraction of a clean ethical theory like Utilitarianism is that it attempts to resolve moral issues on the basis of a single criterion. Pluralism is more complex but no less rational. One needs to order different virtues in a hierarchy in order to help one to choose in the case of a conflict.”
Gurcharan Das, The Difficulty of Being Good

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