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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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What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. – Simone Weil

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To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. – Simone Weil

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A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. – Grandma Moses

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History… is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. – James Joyce, Ulysses

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To many of the modern generations, history, like God, is dead. – Derek Heather

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September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasnt that terrible. – Doris Lessing

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It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power. – James Bovard

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People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess. – Aaron Stanford

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In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, dont let your eyes deceive you. – Janet Jackson

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