"Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains that of relating the essential sequence of historical action and, qua history, to tell what happened, not why."

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Source : Lloyd DeMause (1975). “The New Psychohistory”, New York : Psychohistory Press

Lloyd deMause

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“I want women to really look like women from today. It's not from the past and not from the future, because I don't know what happens in the future. It is the woman of today (who) I think is a seductive woman.”
“I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging.”
“Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.”
“You cannot fix a problem that you refuse to acknowledge.”

Source : Margaret Heffernan (2011). “Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious”, p.97, Simon and Schuster
“I never met a lasagna I didn't like”

Source : Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Goes Bananas: His 44th Book”, p.126, Ballantine Group
“At the root of fear is low self-esteem. This explains why angry people have low self-esteem, are argumentative, stubborn, and quick to flare up yet slow to forgive. Those behaviors are defenses against the underlying fear.”

Source : David J. Lieberman (2010). “Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not: The Proven System to Quickly Assess Anyone's Emotional Stability”, p.20, David Lieberman
“Speechless, castaway, and wry, a spellbound oddity am I. My feet are planted in the clay, my gaze is locked upon the sky.”

Source : Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2011). “Ill-Made Mute”, p.1, Pan Macmillan
“There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible.”

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