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Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance; it's what makes America great!

— Frank Zappa

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The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.

In response to Joe Walsh on The Howard Stern Show (1987)

The lessons learnt in the '60s about merchandising stupidity to the American public on a large scale have been used over and over again since that time.

The MOFO Project/Object (2006)

Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989)

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

Watch out where the huskies go,
and don't you eat that yellow snow.

Apostrophe (') (1974)

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You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

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