"Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch."

-- Anthony Marais

#Ignorance Quotes #Doe Quotes #Branches Quotes

“Angelina is my daughter and I am always wishing her the best.”
“Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.”
“If you tell yourself there is a path you need to travel, that it will take time to get where you want to go-that there is a distance between you and the fully realized state-then the path can become a way of holding liberation at arm's length.”

Source : Jan Frazier, Barbi Schulick (2007). “When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening”, p.190, Weiser Books
“You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States and your name is Barack Hussein Obama! And he's using extreme methods, but his application is very smooth. Michelle Obama is extreme, her presence is extreme. And it's an extreme good. Extreme is not negative.”
“To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history, biology, thermodynamics, morality, and self-preservation.”
“Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?”
“It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often feels like a brutal trivialization of reality.”
“The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'”

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