"there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything."

-- Gertrude Atherton

#Knowledge Quotes

“Family life is an encroachment on private life.”
“I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.”
“I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.”
“Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.”
“You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others experience randomness, and that you will intend meanings where others are just spouting words. For exactly that is supposed to be the result of becoming literate: The world becomes a thick texture of significance that you know how to â€œaccess.”
“It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.”
“Politics and football don't mix.”
“At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris of historical trauma, family trauma, you know, stuff that can kill your spirit, is actually raw material to make things with and to build a bridge. You can use those materials to build a bridge over that which would destroy you.”

Source : "Joy Harjo's 'Crazy Brave' Path To Finding Her Voice". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. July 9, 2012.

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