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"Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding."
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"Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself."
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"Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding."
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"Very high altitude astronomy only works by ignoring established biological science."
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"The more we study the more we discover our ignorance."
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"Money is never the cause of all evil, ignorance is!"
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"The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance."
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"The majority of people on earth are ignorant of what their time should be used for."
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"This is the eternal challenge with ignorance - ignorance can't see itself."
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"A lack of knowledge always leads to defeat and destruction."
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"You don't know it... but you can play dumb - right!?"
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"A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!"
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"But I do not doubt that it is beneficial sometimes to contemplate in the mind, as in a picture, the image of a grander and better world; for if the mind grows used to the trivia of daily life, it may dwindle too much and decline altogether into worthless thoughts."
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"Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. III. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. IV. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also."
Reading


"The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer."
Prayer


"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."
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"Poetry: the best words in the best order."
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"A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind."
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"Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding."
Ignorance


"Facts are not truths they are not conclusions they are not even premisses but in the nature and parts of premisses."
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"No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher."
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