"The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been."
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"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear."
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"To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude."
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"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
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"If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed."
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"Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance."
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"Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience."
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"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."
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"I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most devastating to us is not AIDS, it's not gluttony, it's not cancer, it's not any of those things. It is the disease that comes about because we live in ignorance of the wealth of love that God has for us."
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"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."
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"Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance."
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"The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been."
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"Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit."
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"Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science."
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"In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance."
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"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe."
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"[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance."
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"The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance."
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"Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive."
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"Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to the highest degree. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality."
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