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

"We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference."

"The frog in the well knows nothing more grand than its own tiny well."

"Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free."

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

"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."

"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."
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"It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game."

"As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith."

"I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity."
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