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I like to think I don't make music for ignorant people.


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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.


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You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.


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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.


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I view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we've been able to do so much, and learn so much. I view it as really vital, even though sometimes it can be really annoying.
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.


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It is only the ignorant who despise education.


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We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.


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Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
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