"The most violent element in society is ignorance."

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Source : Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.33, Sheba Blake Publishing

Emma Goldman

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“People tend to remember their dreams in the morning a little bit better and if earlier in the night, when you're in a lot of deep sleep, if someone wakes you, or the phone rings or something, you're really confused.”
“I am sure that there is a lot more going on in the objective real world than we can monitor with our five senses. I think dreams allow us to engage with the real world and monitor the way it is acting on us.”

Source : "The Edge of Dreaming". Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2010.
“There can be, therefore, no true education without moral culture, and no true moral culture without Christianity. The very power of the teacher in the school-room is either moral or it is a degrading force. But he can show the child no other moral basis for it than the Bible. Hence my argument is as perfect as clear. The teacher must be Christian. But the American Commonwealth has promised to have no religious character. Then it cannot be teacher.”
“Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown.”

Source : United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development, Vannevar Bush (1945). “Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President”, p.7
“It's so off the charts and off anybody's radar screen, that place. It might as well be another planet. Just try to find somebody who's been to Madagascar. Nobody has been to Madagascar.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.”
“Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.”
“The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.”

Source : Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.374, Applewood Books

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