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    E.E. Cummings
    “The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
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    E.E. Cummings
    “since feeling is first
    who pays any attention
    to the syntax of things
    will never wholly kiss you;

    wholly to be a fool
    while Spring is in the world

    my blood approves,
    and kisses are a far better fate
    than wisdom
    lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
    --the best gesture of my brain is less than
    your eyelids' flutter which says

    we are for eachother: then
    laugh, leaning back in my arms
    for life's not a paragraph

    And death i think is no parenthesis”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: feeling, kiss, love
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
    ― E. E. Cummings
    tags: death, life, poetry
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    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    ― Plato
    tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance
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    “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
    ― Atwood H. Townsend
    tags: reading, study, willful-ignorance
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “Five percent of the people think;
    ten percent of the people think they think;
    and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: thinking, willful-ignorance
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: willful-ignorance
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: blindness, fools, self-deception, truth, willful-blindness, willful-ignorance
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  • #9
    Ayn Rand
    “The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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    Anne Rice
    “Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Witching Hour
    tags: aliteracy, bibliophiles, book-lovers, willful-ignorance, zealotry
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    Richard Dawkins
    “More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: satisfaction, understanding
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    Isaac Asimov
    “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
    tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance
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    John Steinbeck
    “Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: stupidity, willful-ignorance
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    Ray Bradbury
    “But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: lies, lying, truth, willful-ignorance
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: close-mindedness, ignorance, willful-ignorance
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    Charles Darwin
    “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
    tags: certainty, ignorance, knowledge, open-mindedness, science, willful-ignorance
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  • #17
    Abraham Lincoln
    “I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: stubbornness, willful-ignorance
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson
    tags: humor, warbreaker, willful-ignorance
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: men-women
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: patience, time
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: goodness, simplicity, truth
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: happiness, life
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: judge, right, wrong
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: love, world
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
    ― leo tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: life, reason
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: evil, live
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everything I know, I know because of love.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: fiction, love
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself. ”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: death, inspirational
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