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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»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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Ignorance
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«It is not observed in history that families improve with time.»
«If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere»
«It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.»
«I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.»
«I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise»
«It is the theory that decides what can be observed»
«It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us, Every One!»
«I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.»
«I had laid it down as a law for my conduct while in office, and hitherto scrupulously observed, to accept of no present beyond a book, a pamphlet, or other curiosity of minor value; as well to avoid imputation on my motives of action, as to shut out»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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hitherto, imputation, minor, motives, observed, pamphlet, pamphlets, scrupulously, shut down, shut out
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