"To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world."

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Joan Nestle

#History Quotes #World Quotes #Strange Quotes

“Of course, I'm not often the top dog, but sometimes it's better not to be top dog, because you last longer. If a movie or play flops, you always blame the lead. They say, 'He couldn't carry it.' They always blame him. But they rarely blame the second or third banana.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.”
“We live increasingly in a system in which little direct attention is paid to the object, the function, the program, the task, the need; but immense attention to the role, the procedure, prestige, and profit.”

Source : Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.8, New York Review of Books
“When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.”
“We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.”
“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.”
“Religious reasons, which is no reason. I notice Skeptic had a review of Dennett's book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Religious reasons amount to what Dennett terms "skyhooks." Do you believe in skyhooks? I don't.”
“God's ways and His will come in His own perfect time.”

Source : Elizabeth George (2008). “Walking with the Women of the Bible: A Devotional Journey Through God's Word”, p.48, Harvest House Publishers

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