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  • Aleister Crowley Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Most fools think they are only ignorant.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Peter F. Drucker My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Bette Davis My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • John Andrew Holmes Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
    John Andrew Holmes
    American physician and writer (1874 - 1937)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Bertrand Russell Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Barbara Demick One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Allan Bloom Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • William Cobbett Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Iris Murdoch Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • William R. Alger Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
    William R. Alger
    American writer (1822 - 1905)
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  • Walt Whitman Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!)
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Herbert Marcuse Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.
    Herbert Marcuse
    German political philosopher (1898 - 1979)
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  • Allan Bloom Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Thomas Carlyle That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Noam Chomsky The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Samuel Smiles The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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