Albert Camus Quotes
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.
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Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?
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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.
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It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.
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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
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We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say
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Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.
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The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?
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I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to a great many events which are accidental, besides those of games; only these cases would be infinitely more confused, as depending on chances which the most part of men are ignorant of.
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
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And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
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But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.
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Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.
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A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
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It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body. The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.
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I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
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Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.
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Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.
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To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi.
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The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.
