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“We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.”

Knows World Growth History Know How Connections Materialism Manipulation Sane Consumption Consumerism Manipulate

Book:Sane Society Ils 252

Source: Sane Society Ils 252

“The retirement of Athanasius, which ended only with the life of Constantius, was spent, for the most part, in the society of the monks, who faithfully served him as guards, as secretaries, and as messengers; but the importance of maintaining a more intimate connection with the catholic party tempted him, whenever the diligence of the pursuit was abated, to emerge from the desert, to introduce himself into Alexandria, and to trust his person to the discretion of his friends and adherents.”

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.”

Inspirational Facts Reality Motivational Past Form History Design Connections Strict Constructs Arranging

Book:Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance

Source: Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance

“In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.”

Has Beens Past History Connections Greek Inquiry

Author:Simon Schama

“In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.”

Men Giving Whole Courses Names History Events Greatness Connections Eternity Historical Labels Related Great Men Smallest Historic Involuntary Predestined

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory.”

People Used Women Ability History Talent Greatness Glory Ordinary Weakness Ideals Connections Assuming Extraordinary Limitation Exceptional Ordinary People Showcase

Author:Nancy Leigh DeMoss