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“As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.10”
― Das Kapital
― Das Kapital
“I don’t like knowing people in the context of things. "Oh, that’s the person I work out with. That’s the person I’m in a book club with. That’s the person I did that show with." Because once the context ends, so does the friendship”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“Cultures are like books, the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss once remarked, each a volume in the great library of humankind. In the sixteenth century, more books were burned than ever before or since. How many Homers vanished? How many Hesiods? What great works of painting, sculpture, architecture, and music vanished or never were created? Languages, prayers, dreams, habits, and hopes—all gone.”
― 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
― 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
“It is always easy for those living in the present to feel superior to those who lived in the past.”
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“Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe”
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