"If you think the cost of education is high, think about ignorance."

-- Derek Bok

#Ignorance Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Cost Quotes

“I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial service.”
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.”

Source : Robert Monroe (2014). “The Ultimate Journey”, p.205, Harmony
“We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.”
“My hand will always be imperfect because it's humanâ€¦ I think that's where the beauty is.”
“Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.”
“Ronald Reagan makes me proud to be an American. His intelligence, capability, and Christian brotherhood are so inspiring and his way of leadership is just superb. I consider myself lucky to have been his leading lady in The Bad Man and a short subject reel and as a nation all together we are beyond fortunate to have the leadership of such fine people as the Reagan's.”

Source : "A Conversaton with Laraine Day, Hollywood's Girl Next Door". The New York Times Interview, June 9, 1984.
“... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance... I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages.”
“Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.”

Source : Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.232, Vintage

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