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When we valorize ignorance and debase reason, we diminish man and the humanity that dwells within him, to bum an old fashioned phrase from Kant.

— Laura Penny More Money than Brains (2010)

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Who teh heLL R u 2 tELL me what 2 reed or how 2 spel?

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Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909.

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"You think you're so smart" is never a compliment; the only thing worse than being smart is thinking that you are.

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All we really need to do is learn 'em so they don't frig up the cash register or offend the customers.

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It's a shame that pantyless party girls get more attention than the real heroes, the nurses and teachers and moms.

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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.

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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.

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

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