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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. – Voltaire

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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. – H. G. Wells

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Theres a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. – Pearl Bailey

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The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. – Ben Stein

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The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge. – Oliver Joseph Lodge

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Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting? – W. C. Fields

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Dont tell me that man doesnt belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go — and hell do plenty well when he gets there. – Wernher Von Braun

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