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ignorance sarcasm
His ignorance is encyclopedic. Abba Eban
ignorance progress too-much
Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence. Charles Sumner
ignorance doe generations
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. Charles Dudley Warner
ignorance pride whole-family
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other Charles Caleb Colton
ignorance errors steps
Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.
ignorance pride thinking
It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
ignorance vices principles
Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.
ignorance pedants disgusting
Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.
ignorance knowledge men
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.
government people common-sense
People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience. Carol Moseley Braun
government grease corruption
No government functions without the grease of corruption. Carlos Fuentes
government broken branches
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken. Carl Bernstein
government safety levels
Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.
government sake
We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability, Ahmad Chalabi
government hurt people storm work
We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul. Laura Bush
government states united
What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability. Stephen Kinzer
government
We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.
government people together
Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good. Aaron Sorkin
yield world steps
The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one step removed and our experiences of the world is always a recollection of the experience. We are perennially recollecting the instant that has just happened, just passed. Re recollect, recollect, recollect. Carlos Castaneda
yield years stronger
Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end. Agnes Repplier
yield air oxygen
A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best Charles Spurgeon
yield world complexes
Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is. David Guterson
yield optimism rewards
Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards. Carlos Slim
yield understanding merit
To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either. Jane Austen
yield giving
When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us. Aiden Wilson Tozer
yield
God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust
yield brave spurs
Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will. Edmund Spenser