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“Americans ... attach such a fantastic importance to their baths and plumbing and gadgets of all sorts. They talk as if people could hardly be human beings without all that; we in Europe are beginning to wonder if people can be human beings with it.”

People Ifs Humans Human Beings Wonder United States Comfort Europe Importance Fantastic Baths Gadgets Plumbing

Book:Singing Waters

Source: Singing Waters

“[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything-security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them. The freedom they were seeking was freedom from responsibility. It is no wonder, then, that they ceased to be free. In the modern world, we should recall the Athenians' dire fate whenever we confront demands for increased state paternalism.”

World Giving Should States Wanted Lost Responsibility Wonder Fate Modern Security Comfort Demand Seeking Recalls Modern World Lost Everything Athenians Paternalism

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods, or space travelers, instead of by thousands toiling in the sun. Such thinking robs our forerunners of their due, and us of their experience. Because then one can believe whatever one likes about the past - without having to confront the bones, potsherds, and inscriptions which tell us that people all over the world, time and again, have made similar advances and mistakes.”

Source: An Illustrated Short History of Progress

“Having an answer is a comfort. It's when you start asking questions and those questions pull threads in the larger fabric, you're forced to wonder what you're left with. And for people of any age, it's scary to think the fabric of the universe - or the universe as you've always believed it existed - can just unwind, you know?”

People Thinking Knows Age Universe Left Answers Wonder Comfort Asking Scary Thread Fabric Always Believe Asking Questions Unwind

Book:God Is in the Pancakes

Source: God Is in the Pancakes

“Music and other forms of art are by far the most effective kind of social-work that exists. A single, nameless one-hit wonder brings more comfort to the world than almost any single psychologist can hope to in a lifetime”

World Kind Art Wonder Comfort Lifetime Psychologist

Book:How Music Dies (or Lives): Field Recording and the Battle for Democracy in the Arts

Source: How Music Dies (or Lives): Field Recording and the Battle for Democracy in the Arts

“Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.”

Heart Done Wonder Comfort Harm Pity Tempest Amazement

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare