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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#aim high #alone #behave #best #capable

Violence is a tool of the ignorant. ↗

— Flip Wilson

#tool #violence

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#happiness #hopes #ignorance #invaluable #life

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#greater #ignorant #learned #than

I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause. ↗

— Cole Younger

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In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side. ↗

— Gina Gershon

#honorable #profession #side #sleazy

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand. ↗

— Barry Gibb

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The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject. ↗