In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.

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The new dawn blooms as we free it, For there is always light, If only we're brave enough to see it, If only we're brave enough to be it. ― Amanda Gorman

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By Goodbye, we truly mean: Let us be able to say hello again. ― Amanda Gorman

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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

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A man is responsible for his ignorance.

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It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

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There is always light. Only if we are brave enough to see it. There is always light. Only if we are brave enough to be it. ― Amanda Gorman

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Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

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Only when we're drowning do we understand how fierce our feet can kick. ― Amanda Gorman

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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

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