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It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly. – Emma Thompson

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If youve got to my age, youve probably had your heart broken many times. So its not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it. – Emma Thompson

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Age
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But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel Ive failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I dont get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me. – Emma Thompson

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Death
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Weve got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because thats easier. Its much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it. – Emma Thompson

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant. – John Abbott

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Knowledge

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. – James Thurber

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Knowledge

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. – Benjamin Franklin

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Knowledge

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Knowledge

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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. – Virginia Woolf

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The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about. – Don Marquis

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It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasnt the greatest looking guy in the world. – Artie Lange

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It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. – Roger Ascham

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