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"The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance."
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"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
"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."
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
"All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance."
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"In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed."
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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."
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