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ignorance reason-why consciousness
The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance Richard Hooker
ignorance atheism patterns
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy. Richard Rohr
ignorance might bliss
Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too. Robyn Carr
ignorance
Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured. Robert Silverberg
ignorance knowledge quality
Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is nothing with respect either to honour or advantage, for the world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it; with respect to others it is nothing, because it affords no help to ignorance or errour. Samuel Johnson
ignorance self essence
To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. Robert Louis Stevenson
ignorance democracy rulership
The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures Walt Whitman
ignorance opinion bernard-shaw
Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion. Roger Scruton
ignorance moral splendid
...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse. Robert Wright
light
He was the kind of guy, when things were down, he brightened them up. He was happy-go-lucky ... and that light shone around him all the time. Frank Wood
light punishment fake
The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations. Richard Posner
light enemy banking
The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. William Jennings Bryan
light soul waterfalls
She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through. Virginia Woolf
light average giving
What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage. Woody Allen
light hard
When you are dead, it is hard to find the light switch.
light movement visuals
Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement. Robert Delaunay
light bugs kind
You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs. Rob Bell
light purses manners
For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse. Roger Ascham
wants
He is very, very competitive and wants to win.
wants
He's been here 20 years and he wants to recharge.
wants
He doesn't want to be in the courtroom, he wants to be on the ice.
want linear theme
It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear. Richard Holbrooke
wanted
Everyone wanted what she couldn't have. Richelle Mead
want care disaster
Life, unfortunately, doesnʹt seem to care what we want. Act now while you can actually stop it from being a disaster.
want good-things very-good
What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older. Russell Banks
want looks life-is
Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look. Russell Brand
want bed praying
You could pray all you want that you have a massive stroke while you're working and die, but possibly that won't happen, and you'll be in this bed, and somebody's going to have to clean you up. Roz Chast