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“I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortur”
Daniel J. Boorstin quotes (American social historian and educator, 1914)
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“I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.”
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“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.”
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“None meet life honestly and few heroically.”
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“Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.”
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“The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about”

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“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”
Groucho Marx quotes (American Comedian, Actor and Singer, 1890-1977)
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“Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.”
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“Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone”
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“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?”
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“Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge”
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