"Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right."

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Source : Anna Sewell (2013). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.65, Lulu Press, Inc

Anna Sewell

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“People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.”
“The best stuff that Cicero wrote, in the first century in Rome, were the Philippics, a series of speeches that he delivered against Marc Antony, whom he thought was irreparably dismantling the Republic of Rome. Those speeches are powerful because they're not only really pointed but they're thrillingly beautiful - and that's precisely what made them dangerous: the fact that people wanted to read them.”

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“Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.”
“How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly.”
“Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and the many; unity and variety; determinism and freedom; mechanism and vitalism; good and evil; time and eternity; the plenum and the void; moral absolutism and relativism... These are the basic problems of human existence, and as far as we possibly can we arrange things to forget them.”
“John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.”
“There is no experience like having children...If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.”
“Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.”

Source : Brian Herbert (2003). “Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert”, p.389, Macmillan

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