"Ignorance is not an extension of time"

-- H. G. Wells

#Ignorance Quotes #Insightful Quotes

“Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.”
“All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in any moral issue: the argument from self-esteem. Check your premises, convince yourself of the rightness of your cause, then fight for capitalism with full, moral certainty.”
“For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living.”

Source : Edith Grossman (2010). “Why Translation Matters”, p.26, Yale University Press
“Many, if not most, Americans can imagine a fate worse than death, and it is a seemingly interminable process of dying. For them, it is frightening that politicians can find ways to interject themselves into this sad process.”

Source : "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 72, September 19, 2006.
“People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If someone robs a 7-11, they took $500 and they were able to settle the next day for $50 and no admission of wrongdoing, they'd knock over that 7-11 again.”
“A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.”

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