“It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Valley of Fear
Source: The Valley of Fear
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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