Quote by Simone Weil
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. – Simone Weil

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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. – Simone Weil

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Faith
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When a mans life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other mens actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him. – Simone Weil

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Hurt, Injury
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history. – Ralph Nader

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Human history in essence is the history of ideas. – H. G. Wells

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Black history is American history. – Morgan Freeman

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History

I dont believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. – Pablo Picasso

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In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out. – Robert Morgan

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Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. – Charles Lindbergh

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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. – G. K. Chesterton

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Politics ruins the character. – Otto von Bismarck

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