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The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. #StevenPinker

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The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2026
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And the beauty of Laplace's Law is that it works equally well whether we have a single data point or millions of them. #BrianChristian

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And the beauty of Laplace's Law is that it works equally well whether we have a single data point or millions of them. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2026
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Another day, coming out of the supermarket, amidst a throng of people, you catch sight of a face for no longer than eight seconds and yet, here too, you feel the same overwhelming certainty--and, subsequently, a bittersweet sadness at their disappearance... #TheSchoolOfLife

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Another day, coming out of the supermarket, amidst a throng of people, you catch sight of a face for no longer than eight seconds and yet, here too, you feel the same overwhelming certainty--and, subsequently, a bittersweet sadness at their disappearance... #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 4, 2026
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The only actions for which a person is accountable to society, Mill argues, are those that affect others. As long as I am not harming anyone else, my independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. #MichaelSandel

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The only actions for which a person is accountable to society, Mill argues, are those that affect others. As long as I am not harming anyone else, my independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 3, 2026
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