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Reminds me of the quote: "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic"
by grabeh 4y ago
Reminds me of the quote: "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic"
- RangerScience 4y agoSimilarly: If you owe the bank $10,000, it's your problem. If you owe the bank $100m dollars, it's the bank's problem.
- CatWChainsaw 4y agoAnd isn't that attributed to Stalin, or something.
- narwally 4y agoMisattributed. It was actually Kurt Tucholsky who was himself quoting an unnamed French Diplomat. "Der Tod eines Menschen: das ist eine Katastrophe. Hunderttausend Tote: das ist eine Statistik!"
- f0ld 4y agoIt's supposed to be read ironically,,,,,,, right?