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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpl

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. – Lionel Trilling

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We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. – Lionel Trilling

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Paradise, Utopia
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Lionel Trilling
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Obscurity brings safety. – Aesop

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Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. – Marshall McLuhan

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Obscurity

Obscurantism is the academic theorists revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity — a way of proclaiming ones superiority in the face of ones diminished influence. – David Lehman

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Obscurity

Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living. – Mark Twain

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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. – George Bernard Shaw

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communication

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesnt. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. – Oscar Wilde

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good

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. – Mahatma Gandhi

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There are many victories worse than a defeat. – George Eliot

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