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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. – Eric Hoffer

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It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. – Eric Hoffer

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Immigration
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Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story — a story that is basically without meaning or pattern. – Eric Hoffer

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Ignorance is never better than knowledge. – Enrico Fermi

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Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark. – John Jewel

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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. – Alfred North Whitehead

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. – Plato

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