"Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior."

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Source : Martha C. Nussbaum (2012). “Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities”, p.81, Princeton University Press

Martha C. Nussbaum

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“I love to tell how I'm suffering because one percent we're paying 25 percent of the total. We're not paying 25 percent of the total taxes on individuals. We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends. They take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.”
“I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage.”
“Respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.”
“... men and women are but children of a larger growth ...”
“When you're in a room with a guy who has a vision like that, it's just one of those things where you close your eyes and just see that vision - then you just go with it. The guys that I write with are so incredible, just like my producer Trent Willmon, those guys know how to bring things out of me - especially things that I maybe didn't even know that I had.”

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“Ever since I was really really little, I was just singing all the time. Like one of my favorite games when I was little would be to just have one of my sisters pick a title, and I would impromptu create that song.”
“It's hard for anyone in the 24-hour news cycles that we all live in now to follow something that the first round is played in March and the final finishes in December. I understand the challenges there.”
“I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff.”

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