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You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?

Christopher Guest

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  Sacha Guitry
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• The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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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.

  

  Haile Selassie
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• Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.

  

  Kate O'Mara
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• But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

  

  Imran Khan
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• The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

  

  Garrison Keillor
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• Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
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• The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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• If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

  

  Frances Wright
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• God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
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• Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
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• Knowledge leads to unity, but Ignorance to diversity. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.

  

  Ramakrishna
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• Knowledge leads to unity, and Ignorance to diversity.

  

  Ramakrishna
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• When the tail of the tadpole drops off, it can live both in water and on land. When the tail of delusive ignorance drops off from man, he becomes free. He can then live in God and the world equally well.

  

  Ramakrishna
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• Vietnam is about halfway around the world from Washington. It's as large as the major European nations, with nearly 130,000 square miles... Its ancient recorded history goes back to 111 B.C... We entered (that country) with considerable ignorance.

  

  Barry Goldwater
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• 'Don’t lose your temper,' said Ruell evenly. 'It’s your worst fault, except for ignorance.'

  

  Damon Knight
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• Well, now is the time to peel back the foreskin of misconception and apply the wire brush of enlightenment to this mass of sticky half-truths and lies. The truth hurts, but not as much as the consequences of willful ignorance.

  

  Charles Stross
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• Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

• You'll get a kid in Liberia wearing a Tupac T-shirt, and for us, that's zef. People try to say it's like trash, but it's not really trash. It's putting things together you think are cool.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
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• It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Ignorance