If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.

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We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

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Never allow anyone's hate towards you, ignorance, drama, or negativity to stop you from being the person God has called you and created you to be. ― Germany Kent

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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

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There is no darkness but ignorance. - William Shakespeare

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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.- Heraclitus

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our people diverse and beautiful will emerge, battered and beautiful When day comes we step out of the shade, aflame and unafraid. ― Amanda Gorman

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We were told to never use I when writing, because eliminating this voice makes arguments legitimate. But we realize there is nothing that convinces like the self does - our life, our body & its beating, proving it's own jagged point. Tell me what is more powerful than the unerased. ― Amanda Gorman,

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“It’s said that ignorance is bliss. Ignorance is this: a vine that sneaks up a tree, killing not by poison, but by blocking out its light. ― Amanda Gorman

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