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«I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortur»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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About:
Ignorance
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Keywords:
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agnostics,
burned,
burned at the stake,
burning at the stake,
decencies,
decency,
explorer,
explorers,
fanatics,
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observed,
pretensions,
skeptics,
stake,
staked,
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The Menace,
The Skeptic
«I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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About:
Forgiveness
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Keywords:
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cancelled,
forgive,
forgiveness,
Forgive and forget,
note,
noting,
ought,
shown,
take note,
torn
«I cannot say that I am descended from the bastards of Oliver Cromwell, or his courtiers, or from the Puritans who punish their horses for breaking the Sabbath, or from those who persecuted Quakers and burned the witches»
Author: Matthew Lyon
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Keywords:
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burned,
courtier,
courtiers,
Cromwell,
descended,
Oliver,
Oliver Cromwell,
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punish,
Puritans,
Quaker,
Quakers,
Sabbath,
the Sabbath,
The Witches,
witches
«He burned his bridges while they were changing horses in midstream»
«If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman»
«Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.»
Author: Buddha
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About:
Anger
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Keywords:
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burned,
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hot,
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intent,
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like,
someone,
Someone else,
The One,
throwing,
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throw up,
with
«It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
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sort out,
The Beginning,
The End
«If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.»
«It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.»
«He is not an honest man who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company that the soup is hot»