"Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind."

-- Karl Popper

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“What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?”
“Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their lossesâ€¦in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them.”
“A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot, P. Adams Sitney (1981). “The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays”, Barrytown, N.Y. ; Station Hill Press
“While my military experience reinforced in me the strength that I have, it also demonstrated to me that I have the ability and power to make a difference in people's lives.”
“A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation...”
“The age of a child is inversely correlated with the size of the animals it prefers.”

Source : desmond morris (1967). “tha naked ape”
“I think it's important to be with a guy who has a strong sense of integrity. That's how I was raised, and that's something I look for.”

Source : Interview with, www.flare.com. January 31, 2012.
“Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.”

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