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"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
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"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"

"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."

"We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree."

"In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied."

"Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know."
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"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."

"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."

"A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die."

"When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase."

"From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy."

"You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature."
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