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Re: A question of remembrance...
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Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:49:25 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Selçuk Göre writes:

I remember a good sentence from some important
personality in history, but can't remember who is him right now.

"Death of a person is tragedy. Death of a thousand people is
statistics."

  I believe that was Stalin, himself no stranger to the deaths of thousands (or
millions, as I think the original quote indicated.

     Dave!



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  Re: A question of remembrance...
 
(...) Uh-oh... I think it is obvious that I taken it in a very different, actually in exact reverse context..:-) Selçuk (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) I strongly agree. I remember a good sentence from some important personality in history, but can't remember who is him right now. "Death of a person is tragedy. Death of a thousand people is statistics." When you start to think about it as a (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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