"It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other."

-- Oliver Evans

#Communication Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Two Quotes

“None of these devices address that women keep track of many peoples lives, not just their own.”
“The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.”
“Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.”
“I'm a realist and I always have been.”
“Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.”
“Don't cohabitate. Don't fornicate. Don't look at pornography. Don't create a standard of beauty. Have your spouse be your standard of beauty. This is one of the great devastating effects of pornography: you lust after people and compare your spouse to them. It's impossible to be satisfied in your marriage if you don't have a standard that is biblical; that standard is always your spouse.”
“In the end all we have...are stories and methods of finding and using those stories.”
“I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.”

Source : Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.41, Storey Publishing

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