"Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves -- or desires."

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Source : "God in the Machine". "Antiquity", Volume 41, Issue 163, p. 174, September 1967.

Jacquetta Hawkes

#Age Quotes #Desire Quotes #Stonehenge Quotes

“I believe that understanding what is good is obtained by looking at the way the world works and figuring out how to operate in harmony with it to help it evolve.”
“Mostly though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps in my repertoire.”
“Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.”
“The history of colonialism is long and bloody. And it continues today, in the shape of Western arrogance vis-Ã -vis everyone else. "Us against the rest of the world" is the formula that drives the West.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to show...that there does not exist a right to establish hereditary government...because hereditary government always means a government yet to come, and the case always is, that the people who are to live afterwards, have always the same right to choose a government for themselves, as the people had who have lived before them.”
“But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot (1981). “Folie Du Jour”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press
“Canada will also look into their policies to avoid a repeat. They will go after their exporter.”
“Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.”

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