#ali

Ignorance: that blind faculty equally ready to believe and fear the same thing when augmented by knowledge. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #ignorance #knowledge #equality

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#i #idealist #into #make #me

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#generalization #good #gross #holds #i

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#am #because #bottom #bottom line #business

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile. ↗

— Alan Alda

#i #live #makes #sterile #sun

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #philosophy #religion #society #sociology

The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#comes #entirety #fire #glows #life

There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#body #conscious #explanation #fact #inner

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#know #people #poetry #realize #speak

Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world. What I find appealing in life abroad was the inevitable sense of helplessness it would inspire. Equally exciting would be the work involved in overcoming that helplessness. There would be a goal involved, and I like having goals. ↗

— David Sedaris

#equality