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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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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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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He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
#proverbs #italian-proverbs #family

Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
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Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ~John Wayne
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
#quotes #lauren-oliver #thinking #death

I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change. ~Richard Lamm
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Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. ~Proverb
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
#quotes #david-lloyd #art #hope #reality

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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The first step binds one to the second. ~French Proverb
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~Indian Proverb
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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