"An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person."

-- Hendrik Willem van Loon

#Ignorance Quotes #Ignorant Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.”
“One of the things about Steve Jobs is that he gives us an opportunity to look at the disjuncture between that world and the world he claimed that Apple represented, the "Think different" world of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks and Gandhi.”

Source : "Alex Gibney on Steve Jobs: 'He was ruthless when it came to a beveled edge for the iPhone - but paying workers more in China? No way'". Interview with Andrew O'Hehir, www.salon.com. September 4, 2015.
“Form and content must never apologize for each other.”
“I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'”

Source : "Exclusive Q&A: 'Animal Kingdom' Mama Grizzly (And Golden Globe Nominee) Jacki Weaver" by Kevin Polowy, www.mtv.com. January 13, 2011.
“Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 15, 2002.
“The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear.”

Source : "Mars and its Canals". Book by Percival Lowell, Preface, 1906.
“Never trust a journalist.”

Source : 2001 If I Don't Know,'How to Deal with the Press'.
“Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden is probably the spot where the hopes for civilization are best captured. In fact, man defines himself by his garden. My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.”

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