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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
― James Van Praagh, Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life