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Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.

History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward

On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.