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"Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other."
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"The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance."

"In this world, it is a great Self-effort to deliberately remain ignorant despite knowing, right? I deliberately remain ignorant in spite of having the Knowledge."

"Attachment-abhorrence is an 'effect' and ignorance (of the self) is the 'cause'!"

"A lack of knowledge always leads to defeat and destruction."

"Until ignorance, of one's own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away."
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"The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms."

"It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny."

"The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority."

"No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law."

"All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity."

"Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman."

"The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world."

"Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion."

"The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society."
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