"The idea that things used to be better is fantasy. It's putting a halo on something that no one can disprove."

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Source : Source: www.songfacts.com

Dan Mangan

#Ideas Quotes #Halos Quotes #Fantasy Quotes

“The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.”

Source : "How Geena Davis became a champion for women on screen" by Alexandra Spring, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2017.
“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain”

Source : Saint Paul (the Apostle), Thomas Shaw Bancroft Reade (1848). “Christian Experience as Displayed in the Life and Writings of Saint Paul .. 4th Ed. With the Author's Final Corrections”, p.467
“Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.”
“The intellectual process must be stirred. A feeling for knowledge for its own sake must be engendered. Learning will then be an exciting adventure which few can escape, nor will many wish to. And it will bring the spirit to a great awakening which can likely last a lifetime.”
“The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.”
“Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.”
“This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.”
“We don't want to impose our solutions by force, we want to create a democratic space. We don't see armed struggle in the classic sense of previous guerrilla wars, that is as the only way and the only all-powerful truth around which everything is organized. In a war, the decisive thing is not the military confrontation but the politics at stake in the confrontation. We didn't go to war to kill or be killed. We went to war in order to be heard.”

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