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In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.
Anton Chekhov
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Nation states are archaic leftovers from when each man feared the tribe over the hill, an attitude we can’t afford anymore.

david brin

— Part X (p. 539)

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One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.

howard zinn

— Ch. 24 (A People's History of the United States (1980))

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Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.


— Theodor Adorno, “Was bedeutet Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit” (1959)

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These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.


— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, in an interview published in The Los Angeles Examiner (1 August 1926)

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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.


— Calvin Trillin, in The Down and Dirty Guide to Camping with Kids: How to Plan Memorable Family ... (2012), p.113

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Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

theodor adorno

— “Was bedeutet Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit” (1959)

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