"The major force in world history is sheer dumbness."

-- Eric Wolf

#World Quotes #Force Quotes #World History Quotes

“If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.”

Source : Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1892). “Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic”
“A hug makes you feel good all day.”

Source : Kathleen Keating (2011). “The Hug Therapy Book”, p.8, Hazelden Publishing
“Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.”

Source : Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.18, Vintage
“The main thing is to race over to McDonald's to get an egg McMuffin before they shut down for the morning.”
“After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.”
“In the old systems, hierarchies emanate power from above to below through forms of line management and are ideologically supported by cosmologies and theologies featuring celestial rulers and their deputies - the 'rule of the best.'”
“I'm sure everyone has many types of music that they enjoy.”

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