William Shakespeare Quotes
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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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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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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All mankind love a lover.
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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
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I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
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History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.
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When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and the rapidity of its transitions. Before one of them is half through a sentence the other knows his meaning and replies. ... His mental lungs breathe more deeply, in an atmosphere more broad and vast.
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[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!
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Study first, play afterwards.
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A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.
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The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!
