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“One of the most influential imports that Europeans brought back from the crusades was the humble button. This transformed women’s fashion as clothes no longer had to be loose enough to be pulled over their heads. Fashionable women were able to emphasize their figures, combining tight corsetry with long, flowing skirts and sleeves. Femininity, of course, was also a weapon that could be used to control men, and the power of noblewomen in the game of courtly chivalry was greater than that of any man. The”
― Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
― Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
“Labour had become expensive and your average lord could now make more money out of sheep than he could out of his peasants. There was more wool on sheep, for a start, and you could also eat them – which is possible with peasants but socially taboo – so the lords started to throw the expensive, troublesome and uneatable peasants off their land and replace them with sheep. The”
― Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
― Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
“A person who suffers from his own bad habits is almost never likely to blame himself. Everyone else becomes a target. And the folks who are different become the biggest target. Travis”
― The Uncanny Valley: Tales from a Lost Town
― The Uncanny Valley: Tales from a Lost Town
“How many of us count fictional characters, or those we've never met, among our closest friends? My hand's up.”
― Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student
― Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student
“You may not be the person your mother wants you to be, but you are you. Our job here is to try and separate the wheat from the chaff and figure out who you are and not who your mother thinks you are.”
― The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
― The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
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