Primary Source
- Keillor, Steven J. Erik Ramstad and the Empire Builder (North American Heritage Press, Minot, ND. 2002)
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Famous quotes containing the words primary source, primary and/or source:
“A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is direct and simple. A theory, on the other hand, if true, has all the characteristics of a fact except that its verification is possible only by indirect, remote, and difficult means.”
—Chauncey Wright (1830–1875)
“The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative social values, raising tradition on a pedestal. It expresses and confirms, rather than explains or questions, the sources of cultural attitudes and values.... Because myth anchors the present in the past it is a sociological charter for a future society which is an exact replica of the present one.”
—Ann Oakley (b. 1944)
“To not know would be a source of pain.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)