"Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy."

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Source : Holly Lisle (2001). “The Secret Texts”, p.194, Hachette UK

Holly Lisle

#Ignorance Quotes #Self Quotes #Law Quotes

“Cocoa-buttered girls were stretched out on the public beach in apparently random alignments, but maybe if a weather satellite zoomed in on one of those bodies and then zoomed back out, the photos would show the curving beach itself was another woman, a fractal image made up of the particulate sunbathers. All the beaches pressed together might form female landmasses, female continents, female planets and galaxies. No wonder men felt tense.”

Source : Bonnie Jo Campbell (2009). “American Salvage: Stories”, p.131, Wayne State University Press
“You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.”
“Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.”
“Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.”
“Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.”
“There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.”
“Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.”

Source : Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.88, Simon and Schuster
“Performing of any kind: singing, acting, dancing. I also get really excited during interviews.”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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