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"Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard."
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"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?'."
"Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age."
"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."
"Attachment-abhorrence is an 'effect' and ignorance (of the self) is the 'cause'!"
"Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge."
"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."
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"It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color."
"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
"I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way."
"The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small."
"We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft."
"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."
"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."
"There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody."
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