#known

Fear of the unknown and the other is the root of almost all hate. It is born of ignorance and fed by those who would keep us divided. ↗

— Tinnekke Bebout

#fear-of-unknown #hate #ignorance #tolerance-respect #respect

Progress had not invaded, science had not enlightened, the little hamlet of Pieuvrot, in Brittany. They were a simple, ignorant, superstitious set who lived there, and the luxuries of civilization were known to them as little as its learning. They toiled hard all the week on the ungrateful soil that yielded them but a bare subsistence in return; they went regularly to mass in the little rock-set chapel on Sundays and saint’s days; believed implicitly all that monsieur le cure said to them, and many things which he did not say; and they took all the unknown, not as magnificent but as diabolical ↗

— Eliza Lynn Linton

#religion #superstition #unknown #religion

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#describe #does #employment #glad #happily

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. ↗

— Henry Adams

#man #only #through #who #woman

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname. ↗

— Alan Alda

#everybody #gets #nickname #tagged #well-known

It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That's pretty well known. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#backup #become #body #carbohydrate #energy

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#leads #our #poetry #rational #refreshed

It's so important to encourage the use of suncream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sunbeds which are known world-wide as causes of skin cancer. ↗

— Peter Andre

#cancer #causes #disuse #encourage #important

I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#change #changed #come #early #found

You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it. ↗

— Armand Assante

#cursed #get #known #love #then