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"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."
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"Ignorance is the supreme oppressor."

"I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'."

"The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance."

"In this world, it is a great Self-effort to deliberately remain ignorant despite knowing, right? I deliberately remain ignorant in spite of having the Knowledge."

"Attachment-abhorrence is an 'effect' and ignorance (of the self) is the 'cause'!"
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"I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy."

"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes."

"He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third."

"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."

"But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing."

"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."

"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."

"Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad."
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