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Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. – Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. – Benjamin Franklin

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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. – Joseph Addison

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I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory. – Alan Parsons

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The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state. – Kwame Nkrumah

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My number one goal was not getting As – and I proved it. I was a C student. You have to be ready to learn. If youre not interesting in learning, it doesnt work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier. – Brian Lamb

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You cant sweep other people off their feet, if you cant be swept off your own. – Clarence Day

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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. – Edmund Burke

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When ale is in, wit is out. – John Heywood, c.1562

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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And thats just not what the founders intended. – Barack Obama

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