"I ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope, and that hope I held like a smooth warm stone against my heart."

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Source : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Princess Ben”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

#Heart Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“The most subversive people are those who ask questions.”
“I'm not afraid of anything. That's just the way I am.”
“You end up beating your head against a wall again, it doesn't work. Not if you make an abstraction of man. That's why [Albert] Camus is more a la mode now, because he always says 'yes, but there's man. That's the first thing, because myself, I'm a man.' And that's what solidarity .”

Source : Source: www.spikemagazine.com
“I try to make my things aesthetically pleasing; but, if it isnâ€™t functional, people will â€˜ooâ€™ and â€˜aahâ€™ over it in an exhibit but they wonâ€™t buy it. â€¦ My feeling is a chair has to be functional and comfortable for tall and short alike.”
“In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life.... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even at the most basic levels of life.”

Source : "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael Behe, 1996.
“Your color doesn't define your brain nor your soul. You can stand next to any human being and challenge that person as long as you use your brain.”

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“If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after.”
“There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.”

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