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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
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Excitement Life Philosophy Seek
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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Computer Replacement Teacher Technology
It’s humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
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Animal Human Humble Plant Thinking World
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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Difficult Face Inspirational Life Motivational Myself Philosophy
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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Humanity Nation Philosophy Right Understand
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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Believe Death Defense Faith Fools Protection
If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
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Goodness Obey Reason Rule Thinking
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Advantage Evolution Intelligence Necessary
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Decision Philosophy World
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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Confidence Myself Right Wrong
If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
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Fundamental Heaven Hypocrisy Religious Right
Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Greatness Man Mindset One Liner
Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
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Easy Emotion Person Reason

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

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