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History shows that there is nothing so easy to enslave and nothing so hard to emancipate as ignorance, hence it becomes the double enemy of civilization. By its servility it is the prey of tyranny, and by its credulity it is the foe of enlightenment. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays

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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. – Bertrand Russell

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A little learning is dangerous, but downright ignorance is even more disastrous. – Author unknown, from The Galveston Daily News, 1894 June 10th

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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. – William G. McAdoo

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Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us. – Christopher Andrea

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