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"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."

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."

"If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance."

"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."

"Ignore ignorance. The ultimate way to deal with men with ignorant mentality who are ignorance of your purpose on earth is to ignore their ignorance, capitalize on their ignorance and let them appreciate your purpose in awe and admiration."
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"For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate."

"In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today."

"A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security."

"Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly."

"Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion."

"My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained."

"A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages."

"Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity."

"Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons."

"World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race."
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