"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Friendship Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Ignorance Quotes

“I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.”

Source : Sven Broman, Greta Garbo (1992). “Conversations with Greta Garbo”, G K Hall & Company
“Someone sent an email to Reverend Joanna Watson [an American missionary] saying that I'm gay, and she sent it to all the anti-gay pastors in Uganda. One of them said, "We're going to take care of this guy." When I was confronted by them I didn't know what they were going to do, but they decided to pray over me. They said they were going to cure me. That didn't work, of course.”
“The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.”

Source : Statement, November 08, 1998.
“Every time it starts to snow, I would like to have sex.”
“People get so stressed and nervous and mad.”
“When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.”
“The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.”
“In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that's what's interesting.”

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