Did Stalin really say so?

[Barbara Henry]

No, that was Sir Francis Bacon.




>Shakespear knew about statistics? Wow, was also he the guy who used to
>sit under the apple tree and watch ripe apples fall? :))
>
>Kirill Sereda
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>Dear Colleagues,
>Could anybody tell me whether it is right to attribute the saying gA
>single death is a tragedy, a million deaths
>
>Mitsuyoshi Numano
>Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
>The University of Tokyo
>
>
>The quote is from Shakespeare. Sorry, I don't remember which play. I
>seem to recall that Dostoyevsky either used it in Crime and Punishment,
>or in reference to the novel. In any case, it is an ideal quote for use
>in lectures or discussion of the novel. The quote has been applied to
>Stalin, and of course to Hitler. Perhaps Nietsche used it?
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Northwestern University

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