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Ruth Ozeki
“Ignorance.” In this root sense, ignorance is an act of will, a choice that one makes over and over again, especially when information overwhelms and knowledge has become synonymous with impotence.”
Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats

Ruth Ozeki
“Fed on a media diet of really bad news, we live in a perpetual state of repressed panic. We are paralyzed by bad knowledge, from which the only escape is playing dumb. Ignorance becomes empowering because it enables people to live. Stupidity becomes proactive, a political statement. Our collective norm.”
Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats

“Another protester said that more cyclists on New York City’s streets looked “ridiculous.” She gave the reporter the tired refrain “This is not Amsterdam.” DOT has no Amsterdam-ometer in its traffic analysis toolbox to measure changes in the street on a scale of one to ten windmills. Analyzing”
Janette Sadik-Khan, Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution

“You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.”
Joseph Kesselring, Arsenic and Old Lace

“Deer were grass eaters, a characteristic that freed them from the responsibility of overanalyzing their surroundings.”
Catherine Raven, Fox and I

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