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History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing

History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass. – Frederic Harrison, The Meaning of History

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In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. – Newt Gingrich

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For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history. – Michael Pollan

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Life doesnt just happen its constructed through the history of power. And thats something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world thats trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here. – Mike Mills

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One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, – to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization. – John Jay Chapman, Memories and Milestones

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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. – Wendell Berry, “The Peace of Wild Things”

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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. – Paul Valery

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Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith. – Tony Campolo

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