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"The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance."
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"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."

"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."

"The more we study the more we discover our ignorance."

"This is the eternal challenge with ignorance - ignorance can't see itself."

"Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper."

"The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it."
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"Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case."

"In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed."

"Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact."
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