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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Capability Choice Option Refuge Violence
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Death Life Peace Pleasant Transition
Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Greatness Man Mindset One Liner
Education isn’t something you can finish.
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Education One Liner Yourself
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies.
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Convenience Democracy Dignity Human Life People Population Survive Value World Yourself
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Excitement Life Philosophy Seek
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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Honesty Myself Wrong
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
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Fear Hold Past Time
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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Culture Democracy Goodness Ignorance Intellectual Knowledge Life Meaning Wind Yourself
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Deep Reading Speed Understand
You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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Advice Negative Oneself Yourself
You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
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Choice Future Goodness Prediction Reaction Yourself
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Creation Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Problem

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