"A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control."

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Mary Downing Hahn

#Real Quotes #Stories Quotes #Like You Quotes

“I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.”

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“In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created to convert government bonds into fiat money, and the people lost over half of their monetary assets to the hidden tax of inflation. In the South, printing presses accomplished the same effect, and the monetary loss was total.”
“I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.”
“A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.”
“Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We shall all be alike-brothers of one father and one another, with one sky above us and one country around us, and one government for all.”
“I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.”
“Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even to go to war on God's behalf. This 'blasphemy of certainty' is also rife among secularists who in their case have not God but science or the proletariat on their side.”

Source : Stephen Prothero (2010). “God Is Not One”, p.356, ReadHowYouWant.com
“The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act.”

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