"Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows."

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Source : Octavia E. Butler (1998). “Parable of the Talents: A Novel”, p.187, Seven Stories Press

Octavia Butler

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“Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included.”
“Christianity is different from all other religions? They deal with the story of man's search for God. The Gospels deals with the story of God's search for man.”
“For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.”
“There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it's too late.”

Source : Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.17, Indiana University Press
“I am glad you encouraged me with the 'Stoke' [his painting 'Stoke-by-Nayland', circa 1835] What say you to a summer morning? July or August, at eight or nine o'clock, after a slight shower during the night, to enhance the dews in the shadowed part of the picture, under 'Hedge row elms and hillocks green.' Then the plough, cart, horse, gate, cows, donkey, &c. are all good paintable material for the foreground, and the size of the canvas sufficient to try one's strength, and keep one at full collar.”
“There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.”

Source : Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.159, Simon and Schuster
“When you're a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory.”

Source : "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.
“I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range,and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.”

Source : "Sarah Wayne Callies Talks Latest Episode of THE WALKING DEAD in Spoiler-Filled Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 7, 2012.

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