"Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development."

-- Lewis Mumford

#Needs Quotes #Development Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“Human beings are weak.”
“Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a line of constant progress. Including ideas would make history contingent: things could go either way, and have on occasion. The 'right' people, armed with the 'right' ideas, have not always won. When they didn't, the authors would be in the embarrassing position of having to disapprove of an outcome in the past. Including ideas would introduce uncertainty. This is not textbook style.”

Source : James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.203, The New Press
“You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.”
“Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.”
“No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.”

Source : Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”
“It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.”
“We change for the good so long as good exists around us.”

Source : Michael Lewis (1998). “Altering Fate: Why the Past Does Not Predict the Future”, p.204, Guilford Press
“He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.”

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