"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
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"Living is Easy with Eyes Closed."
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"Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing."
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"The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance."
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"You can be sincere and still be stupid."
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"One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny."
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"Never underestimate your own ignorance."
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"In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a delightful diversity of food and craftwork. It translates into closed pockets of oppression, ignorance, and abuse."
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"In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance."
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"Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some."
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"I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink."
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"In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself, and how much there is to learn. How little we know about this brain which made social evolution possible, and of the mind. How little we know of the nature and spirit of man and God. We stand now before this inner frontier of ignorance. If we could pass it, we might well discover the meaning of life and understand man's destiny."
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"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."
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"It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant."
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"You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance."
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"Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust."
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"We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us."
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"There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance."
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"When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results."
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"If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn."
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