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"Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance."
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"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."

"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?'."

"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."

"All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance."

"Until ignorance, of one's own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away."

"Abhorrence towards bitter circumstances and attachment towards sweet ones is the nature of agnan (ignorance of the self). Bitter and sweet will not exist if agnan (ignorance of the self) leaves."
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"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable."

"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

"If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring."

"A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas."

"This is what men call genius, just as they call a painted face beauty and a richly attired figure majesty. The confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud."

"Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?"
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