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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.


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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.


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


Tinie Tempah
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Read books. They are good for us.


Natalie Goldberg
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.


Flip Wilson
I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.
Patricia Heaton
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.


Henry Ward Beecher
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It is only the ignorant who despise education.


Publilius Syrus
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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.


Flea
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We don't choose the books we write; they choose us.


Miriam Toews
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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.
George Eliot
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.


Bertrand Russell
When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.
Roberto Unger
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.


Benjamin Franklin
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So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.
Bernard Cornwell
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Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
Andrew Jackson
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In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.


Harriet Tubman
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The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.


Mary J. Blige
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