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I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

— Douglas Adams The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

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If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

You made us what you would not dare to be yourselves. Yet you will not acknowledge us.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

The kid was deliberately and maliciously watching television at him.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

Thor was the God of Thunder and, frankly, acted like it.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport."

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

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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.

Julian Assange

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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