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"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."
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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."
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"The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow."

"Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease."

"He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all."

"In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions."

"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle."

"To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all."
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