“The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.”
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“Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.”
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“Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.”
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“The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me.
I wish every grad student had that attitude.”
― The Last Lecture
I wish every grad student had that attitude.”
― The Last Lecture
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