"Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance."

-- Herbert Spencer

#Ignorance Quotes

“I just wanted to live. I never wanted to hurt anyone. Please understand.”
“Harmony is the inlet of God into the mind, so that the mind acts in obedience to a law above mind - and that law is unity.”
“It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken.”
“Little miss is taught by her mamma that she must never speak before she is spoken to. On this she sits bridling up her head, looking from one to the other, in hopes of being called to and addressed by the name of pretty miss.... But if this should not happen and no one should take any notice of her, she is ready to cry at the neglect. But should there be another miss in the room caressed and taken notice of whilst she is thus overlooked, it will be impossible for her to contain her tears, and blubbering is the word.”
“He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.”
“Some of the albums I like best in the whole world are considered psychedelic albums. A psychedelic album is an album that when you put it on, if you listen to both sides, when it's over, your perceptions have been changed and I think that our record can do that.”
“You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort.”

Source : "The University Has Become a Factory". Interview with Jack Fincher, Life magazine, February 26, 1965.
“When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.”

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