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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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. - Terry Pratchett

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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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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.

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A man is responsible for his ignorance.

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History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma.

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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Freedom without limits is just a word. - Terry Pratchett

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