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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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Ignorance
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«I never saw any of man's baser acts of inhumanity to man. I never saw screaming 'witches' burned at the stake, Christians tossed to starving lions, maidens pushed over the edge of active volcanoes. I never even saw a man going to the electric chair. But until I do, watching Ben Hogan walk up to a five-foot putt is my idea of cruel and inhuman punishment, only a Hitler would enjoy. You feel like saying 'Go home to your wife and kiddies and don't look upon this terrible thing!'»
Author: Jim Murray
(Writer)
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«One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.»
«All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.»
Author: Indira Gandhi
(Politician, Prime Minister)
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«Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake»
Author: Edgar Watson Howe
(Editor, Essayist, Novelist)
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