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The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other Charles Caleb Colton
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Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance. Charles Caleb Colton
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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning. Charles Caleb Colton
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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty. Charles Spurgeon
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The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong? Alan Watts
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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so ... Alan Greenspan
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Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik. George Bernard Shaw
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God hides the fires of hell within paradise. Paulo Coelho
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. Karl Popper
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Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth. Nikolai Berdyaev
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We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future. Jacque Fresco
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The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. Carl Sagan
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The possession of full knowledge does away with the need of trusting, while complete absence of knowledge makes trust evidently impossible. Georg Simmel
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In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex. Marguerite Gardiner
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We bomb homes, and these people have families -- and the U.S. refuses to apologize for these civilian deaths. The absence of concern makes their actions almost equal to a deliberate targeting of civilians. William Blum
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We know from experience that the absence of sexual and reproductive health services results in an increase in unintended pregnancies and, inevitably, a greater number of unsafe abortions. Gareth Thomas
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The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection. John Millington Synge
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Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. Roger de Rabutin
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The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom. Shimon Peres
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She's not dropping out. She's taking an approved leave of absence to focus on her increasing responsibilities and live her life. Michael Pagnotta