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“Civilizations, from the perspective of history, are shown to be the outcome of mixtures and borrowings, often of quite arbitrary things, but always on a prodigious scale.”
― David Wengrow, What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West

“A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.”
― Michael Foley, The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy

“It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, Lucky In Love Greeting Card