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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If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.

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There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

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The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom. - Voltaire

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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. ― Booker T. Washington

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There is no darkness but ignorance. - William Shakespeare

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Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellow men.

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Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

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