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Innocence is the true beauty of youth.
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In the end, particles are regarded as excited states of the quantum field.
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Motion is the shadow of time.
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The genesis of a meme is perception.
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Pride in ignorance is fodder for the machine of tyranny.
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"Neither do the ignorant seek after Wisdom. For herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he has no desire for that of which he feels no want." -Plato, 360 BCE
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"Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live forever as a child." -Cicero, c. 106-43 BC
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"You will say in this new classification of citizens I have marked no place for myself; I am neither farmer, mechanic, merchant or shopkeeper. I believe however I am of the first class. I am a farmer of thoughts, and all the crops I raise I give away." -Thomas Paine, 1776
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -Thomas Jefferson, 1816
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"They are Man's," said the Spirit, looking down upon them. "And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it.' cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city. 'Slander those who tell it ye. Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse. And abide the end." -Charles Dickens, 1843
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