"After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is as weird and remote from our own as Middle Earth or Narnia, yet oddly familiar."

-- Ysabeau S. Wilce

#Past Quotes #Research Quotes #World Quotes

“Be true to yourself. Never compromise.”
“Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up with or even go one better than our neighbors. So we buy another dress, sports jacket or sports car and thereby force up the standard of living. The ever more affluent standard of living is the god of twentieth century North America and the adman is its prophet.”

Source : Ronald J. Sider (1977). “Rich Christians in an age of hunger: a Biblical study”, IVP Books
“Oh great, socks. You know I'm dying for your sins right? Yeah, but thanks for the socks! They'll go great with my sandals. What am I, German?”
“Now you know," I said lightly, and shrugged. "No one's ever loved anyone as much as I love you.”
“We are still focussing too much on gender. If we all just gave ourselves a break, knowing that we could all be everything, we'd feel relieved and more equal.”
“Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.”
“We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses”
“The world today doesn't please me.”

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