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Nikolai Ge, 'What is Truth?' (Christ and Pilate), 1890. Source: Print Collector / Getty Images

Leo Tolstoy My Religion

I do not now concern myself with theology and the Gospels, but with an inner work of an entirely different nature. I have to do now, with nothing systematic or methodical, only with that sudden light which showed me the Gospel doctrine in all its simple beauty.

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Marx The First International & After Political Writings Volume 3

...I went straight to my business. The world, I said, seemed to be in the dark about the International, hating it very much, but not able to say clearly what thing it hated. Some, who professed to have peered further into the gloom than their neighbors, declared that they had made out a sort of Janus figure with a fair, honest workman's smile on one of the faces, and on the other a murderous conspirator's scowl. Would he light up the case of mystery in which the theory dwelt?

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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Vol 2

"The absolute magnitude of the value added by the transportation of commodities is, other things being equal, inversely proportional to the productive power of the transport industry and directly proportional to the distance traveled... The useful effect is the alteration of the place of the thing... The productive power of transport is inversely proportional to the time it takes to move the commodity from one place to another."

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