It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ~Richard Dawkins
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Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. ~Frank Dane
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ~John Wayne
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid. ~Rafael Nadal
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Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message. ~James Patterson
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Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales. ~Nancy Dunnan
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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Death is just life's next big adventure. ~J. K. Rowling
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell Willkie
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. ~William Osler
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Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect! ~Jonathan Richman
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Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
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While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States. ~Robert Tisserand
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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro. A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain. The passion of the gale. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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